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‘I read this in one sitting, tears splashing onto its pages. Everyone read it’ Emma Gannon

'A calm-but-utterly-compelling life-story of trauma and healing’ Marian Keyes

‘A powerful memoir’ Laura Whitmore

‘A total cliché but I honestly couldn't put it down’ Hadley Freeman

‘Devastating, heart-breaking and magnificent’ Daisy Buchanan

‘Moving and beautifully written’ Grazia

The dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood

Gavanndra Hodge’s childhood was chaos. Her father, a hairdresser to Chelsea’s rich and famous, was also their drug dealer. Her mother, a beautiful model who suffered from alcoholism. Gavanndra’s days and nights were filled with glamourous parties - she spent them taking care of her little sister, Candy, and putting out fires, both figuratively and literally.

When Candy passed away suddenly aged nine, Gavanndra was left alone with her grief. Growing up in the shadow of her parents' social lives, surviving meant fitting into their dysfunctional world, while stopping the family from falling apart . . .

‘The must-read of the summer’ The Times

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