The Hungover Games, Sophie Heawood
The Hungover Games, Sophie Heawood
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The Hungover Games
A True Story

Author: Sophie Heawood

Narrator: Sophie Heawood

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

This "funny, dark, and true" (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag generation: What happens when you have an unplanned baby on your own in your mid-thirties before you've worked out how to look after yourself, let alone a child?
This is the 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 touring 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 attempt some kind of modern family life with him.
So now you're six months along, sleeping on a friend's sofa in London, and waking up in the morning to a room full of taxidermied animals who seem to be staring at you. The Hungover Games about what it's like raising a baby on your own when you're more at home on the dance floor than in the kitchen. It's about how to invent the concept of the two-person family when you grew up in a traditional nuclear unit of four, 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.
Unflinchingly honest, emotionally raw, and surprisingly sweet, The Hungover Games is the true story of what happens if you've been looking for love your whole life and finally find it where you least expect it.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on June 13, 2020

The Hungover Games is an amusing and poignant glimpse into the world of a woman who didn't mean to become a mother, but who found her life's path when she got there. "It had all happened by accident. I hadn't meant to have a baby at all. I hadn't meant not to have a baby either, by which I mean I alw......more

Goodreads review by Turkeyphant on October 16, 2020

Tries hard to pretend otherwise in a sort of Gwyneth Paltrow meets Bridget Jones way, but when's all said and done, it's just dumbed down tabloid idiot fodder. Not even a hint of literary merit, just that overused jolly attempt at self-deprecating humour and wacky/tedious we've-all-been-there-haven'......more

Goodreads review by Claire on July 04, 2021

A funny memoir about finding yourself in a very adult role but not feeling very adult at all. Heawood really captures that sense that we’re all faking it and none of us really knows what we are doing, and this part of the story is likely to resonate with a lot of people. I felt this book danced arou......more

Goodreads review by Eilish on January 26, 2021

I hated this book, I couldn’t wait for it to end! I ended up skipping through the last few chapters because I wanted it to be over. I was just not into the storyline whatsoever, I couldn’t get into the character. I felt like she was trying way too hard to be relevant, it was boring and there was not......more

Goodreads review by Annaliseygirl (BuddStreetBooks) on September 16, 2021

Wow. What a cracking book. Like a bucket of cold water to the face. Heawood is a master of the pithy comment. The memoir is carefully structured, beautifully written and bloody hilarious. Would I have had the same reading experience in my early twenties? perhaps not. But now that I am 160 days away......more


Quotes

"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

"Finally the book that single mothers across the globe have been waiting for. . . . Funny, dark and true."—Cailtin Moran

"Single motherhood gets a caustic spin in this intercontinental memoir. Sophie Heawood revisits the time her life fell apart: when she left L.A. for her native England while pregnant, and her musician boyfriend walked out on her."—Entertainment Weekly

"Sophie has the ability to write as if she's talking only to you, in moments of humour and pathos. She makes you feel like you're not on your own. I always feel both inspired and comforted after reading her work. She has a voice as a solo parent that I don't think is represented in the world today. I am, and will always be, her biggest fan."—James Corden

"Unflinching yet comic."—Cosmopolitan (UK)

"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."—Philippa Perry