There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism [...] by the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through--Evening Standard

I read it in one sitting without pause. It is an astonishing book. I haven't stopped thinking about it--Charlotte Edwardes, columnist for Sunday Times Style Magazine

Gavanndra writes beautifully, her words are unsentimental but very lyrical [...] I loved this book and my tears fell into the bath as I read it--Clover Stroud, author of The Sunday Times Bestselling memoir My Wild and Sleepless Nights

Wise and moving . . . this memoir is an acknowledgment that love demands a price--Guardian

This is one of the best books I've read about grief - and the catastrophic consequences of addiction. Exquisitely written. Profoundly moving--Robert Peston

A heartbreaking and compelling memoir--Red

Looks at the power of love and loss in shaping one's life. Moving and beautifully written--Grazia

The must-read of the summer--The Times

So brilliantly written . . . ultimately joyful and uplifting--Daily Mirror

Brave and beautifully written--Elle

Gavanndra Hodge's moving memoir recounts the consequences of an early life framed by beauty, glamour and tragedy--The Observer

There are books - and then there are books that you'll never forget reading. A quite extraordinary memoir--Becky Barrow, News Editor of The Sunday Times

By turns painful and joyful, this beautiful book has plenty of poignant lessons to teach us about grief and love--Cosmopolitan

A wonderful and transformative memoir about the impact of loss and the power of love; and one that illustrates how it is never too late to tackle suppressed grief--Julia Samuel, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller This Too Shall Pass

I read this in one sitting, tears splashing onto its pages. A beautiful book about grief, losing a sibling, trauma, drugs, parenting & memory in the most exquisite way. Please everyone read it--Emma Gannon, podcaster, author of Olive and founder of The Hyphen Book Club

This book is genuinely extraordinary--Eleanor Wood

Life affirming [...] an enrapturing journey through darkness, destructive behaviour and an urgency for light and happiness now--Magic Radio Book Club, May's Book of the Month

A powerful memoir--Laura Whitmore, BBC Radio 5

Timely and highly original--Evening Standard

Brilliant and moving--The Times

The Consequences of Love is undoubtedly one of this year's most hotly-anticipated books, and with good reason--The Sunday Salon podcast with Alice-Azania Jarvis

Brilliantly written and heartbreaking but also joyful and uplifting--Psychologies

Extraordinary . . . profoundly moving--Sunday Mirror

A real tear-jerker--i

At a time when so many families are losing loved ones, and are denied even the scant comfort funerals provide, there is no more poignant moment for this book to appear--Emily Hilll, The Spectator

A devastating, heart-breaking and magnificent meditation on the function of memory. It will stay with me forever, so beautifully written --Daisy Buchanan, author of Everything Under