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The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw. 'Deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood . . . Full of adventure and awe' Dolly Alderton People always said I'd find love where I least expected it. I always said they were idiots. 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. **AN EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK OF 2020** **AN OBSERVER NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2020** ___________________ Praise for THE HUNGOVER GAMES- 'Funny, dark and true' Caitlin Moran 'A deeper, funnier, realer, more poignant Bridget Jones' Philippa Perry 'Sharply observed and funny' Guardian 'Frank and fearless' Red 'Outrageously entertaining' David Nicholls 'This is the first time I've read anything about motherhood that didn't bore me' Sara Pascoe

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Hilarious... It is a charming, diverting, indie flick of a memoir, a joy to gulp down. -- Alice-Azania Jarvis * The Times * 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 * Outrageously entertaining. -- David Nicholls * i Newspaper * 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 * Sharply observed and funny... Indecently entertaining... Beautiful. -- Fiona Sturges * Guardian *

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Sophie Heawood was born and raised in Yorkshire, where she never quite mastered the accent. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at university, where she also never quite mastered the accents, and dropped out of her degree to work on the door of nightclubs. Her parents were thrilled. She now lives in Hackney, East London, with her daughter and their dog. Sophie has written for many publications including The Times, Guardian, Observer and Vogue.

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