My guest on this episode is Gavanndra Hodge. She has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, including the Daily Mail, the Independent and ES Magazine. Gavanndra is the sister of my guest on EP 5 Maranda Widlund, launching today too. She was the deputy editor and acting editor of Tatler. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the Sunday Times, The Times and the Telegraph. In 2020 during the 1st covid lockdown, Gavanndra released her first ever book, The Consequences of Love, a memoir which examines grief, addiction, trauma and what it means to come to terms with the past. The book became an instant best seller and catapulted Gavanndra into the spotlight, as she shared her story about growing up with her father Gavin Hodge, one of the first “celebrity” hairdressers in the swinging 60’s of London who packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex, but also about how amongst all the chaos of her teenage life, her younger sister Candy, sadly passed away suddenly whilst on a family holiday.