The Hungover Games

Author: Sophie Heawood

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9781787330511
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Jonathan Cape
  • : September 2020
  • : 35.0
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  • : Sophie Heawood
  • : Hardback
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Barcode 9781787330511
9781787330511

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'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


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.


**AN EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK OF 2020**


**AN OBSERVER NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2020**