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The Hungover Games

By: Sophie Heawood
Narrated by: Sophie Heawood
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What happens when you have an accidental baby on your own in your mid-30s?

The Hungover Games is the true story of one woman’s adventures in single-motherhood. It’s about what happens when Mr Right isn’t around, so you have a baby with Mr Wrong, a musician who tells you halfway through your pregnancy that he’s met someone else - just after you’ve given up your LA life and moved back to England to be with him, so you’re now six months up the duff and sleeping on a friend’s sofa in an art studio in Dalston.

It’s about what it’s like raising a baby on your own when you feel more at home on the dance floor than in the kitchen. It’s about how to invent the concept of a two-person family, when you grew up in a traditional nuclear unit and your kid’s friends all have happily married parents, too, and you are definitely not, in any way, ticking off the days until all those lovely couples get divorced.

Brilliantly funny, unflinchingly honest and emotionally raw, The Hungover Games is the true story of what happens if you’ve been looking for love your whole life and you finally find it where you least expect it.

‘Unflinching yet comic.’ (Cosmopolitan)

An Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan Best Book of 2020.

An Observer Non-Fiction Book to Look out For in 2020.

©2020 Sophie Heawood (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Parenting & Families Relationships Single Parents Women Single Parent Funny Game Witty Comedy

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What an absolute star. Please write more in your own voice and read more in your own voice - just loved it.

Loved it *****

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loved it loved it!! she is brilliant, so many important messages in there wider than motherhood

brilliant

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The best memoir I've ever read/listened to. It felt relatable, even though I've not brushed with accidental pregnancy or high profile journalism, funny, and warm. It didn't feel self indulgent as I find memoirs often do, but sweet and triumphant in a lovely way.

Warm, reassuring, wise

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The book every solo Mum needs to read. Gutted it’s finished!
Laughed and cried in equal measure. Feel bereft.
Like somebody finally got it.
Thankyou Sophie.

Absolutely brilliant.

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Loved it a lot! Was skeptical when I first started listening but actually so funny and so clever and really interesting. Really enjoyed it :)

Really good really funny and clever

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