The Hungover Games

Sophie Heawood author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:16th Jul '20

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The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw.

how I never did find a copy of What To Expect When You Weren't Even Fucking Expecting To Be Expecting, and why paternity testing is not a good topic for a first-date conversation.

People always said I'd find love where I least expected it.

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **

'Indecently entertaining' Guardian

'Hilarious' The Times

I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a magazine, and I wrote for magazines for a living. My specialist subject was celebrities, and my own relationships made their marriages look eternal. I'd never paid a household bill that didn't mention bailiffs, and my idea of exercise was to go and stand outside a famous person's house and stare until I'd convinced myself that I lived in it.

But my life in LA was happy; free of care and consequence. That was, until I came down to earth - with a bump.

So this is the story of how I staggered from partying in Hollywood to bringing up a baby in Piss Alley, Dalston; how I never did find a copy of What To Expect When You Weren't Even Fucking Expecting To Be Expecting, and why paternity testing is not a good topic for a first-date conversation.

People always said I'd find love where I least expected it. I always said they were idiots.

'Beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking' Dolly Alderton

Sharply observed and funny... Indecently entertaining... Beautiful. -- Fiona Sturges * Guardian *
Funny, acerbic, sometimes despairing and brutally candid... A must-read for anyone out there, floundering, scared they're doing it wrong. The writing is great in The Hungover Games, but the humour and honesty are even better. -- Barbara Ellen * Observer *
Outrageously entertaining. -- David Nicholls * i Newspaper *
Brilliantly bawdy and movingly tender. A warm, generous and hilarious read, it's also a great listen: 2020 was the year I got into audiobooks and this one, read by the author herself, had me guffawing in public. -- Lynn Enright * Irish Times *Books of the Year* *
Honest, moving and funny... Brilliant... [Heawood] has written a tender book about parental love that she and her daughter should be proud of. -- Susannah Butler * Evening Standard *
Hilarious... It is a charming, diverting, indie flick of a memoir, a joy to gulp down. -- Alice-Azania Jarvis * The Times *
Beautiful, laugh-out-loud, honest and, on occasion, heartbreaking. -- Sophie Cockett * Glamour *
As funny as it is moving, The Hungover Games is a gorgeous read. -- Anna Bonet * Good Housekeeping *20 of the Best Nonfiction Books* *
It's a deeper, funnier, realer, more poignant Bridget Jones. I have never read a more accurate account of what it feels like to be a parent, especially a single one. -- Philippa Perry
Beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking... a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder. -- Dolly Alderton

ISBN: 9781787330511

Dimensions: 222mm x 144mm x 27mm

Weight: 392g

272 pages