- Published: 1 September 2020
- ISBN: 9781787330511
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $35.00
The Hungover Games
- Published: 1 September 2020
- ISBN: 9781787330511
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $35.00
The Hungover Games deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood through a beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story. Full of adventure and awe, Sophie Heawood has written a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder.
Dolly Alderton
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. I don’t think Sophie thinks of herself as being a self-help author but this book will work as self-help for parents. Life is never perfect, it’s messy, and it shouldn’t be about how to be perfect it’s about how to be with the mess. Be more Sophie.
Philippa Perry
Reading The Hungover Games is a bit like having a new boyfriend: you think about it every second you're not with it and long for everyone to go away so that you can just lie down with it and savour its gorgeous, funny rudeness.
Pandora Sykes
Finally the book that single mothers across the globe have been waiting for… Funny, dark and true.
Caitlin Moran
Rejoice! One of our favourite journalists Sophie Heawood – known for her hilarity and honesty – publishes her first book this year. It's a memoir about being a single mother when you haven't quite worked out how to look after yourself.
Arielle Tchiprout, Red *The best books we can't wait to read in 2020*
I adored this debut memoir about a voyage into single-motherhood, when motherhood was the last thing on the author's itinerary... Her account of what happens next is freewheeling, hugely funny (there's a particularly brilliant story about a visit to an LA gynaecologist) and genuinely soul-mining. A "Best Book of 2020" for the Evening Standard and the Observer, it already counts Caitlin Moran and Dolly Alderton among its fans.
Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller *Editor's Choice*
Raw and funny, Heawood’s memoir celebrates the messiness of life and motherhood with boldness, panache, and unexpected moments of real poignancy. An uncensored and eccentric delight.
Booklist
Heawood writes with warmth and wit about life as a single mother.
Rachel Cooke, Observer, *Books to Look Out For in 2020*
[A] beautiful, laugh-out-loud, honest and, on occasion, heartbreaking story.
Sophie Cockett, Glamour
Thought-provoking and insightful.
Metro