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The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
3.0

The Hungover Games is true-story about a young woman’s journey to motherhood. She became pregnant unexpectedly after one of her hook-ups and found herself single, pregnant and broke. Sophie Heawood talks through the highs and lows of being pregnant and a new mother in the modern world, with her brutally honest comedy shining through each story.

Being 24 and without children, there were moments in her story that was solely about her experience of pregnancy and early motherhood and I struggled to relate to what she was talking about. Yet there are definitely some lessons I can take and which are good to know for when I am a mother.

I always love hearing/reading about people’s dating lives to see laugh and relate to other people’s horrific and strange dating experiences because we’ve all had them and sometimes you can end up questioning whether you’re the only one.

I really enjoyed the little insights into the interviews she was having with extremely famous celebrities and her humour was absolutely fantastic. There were multiple times when I was genuinely creasing at her stories. One thing for certain is that her daughter is going to have such an amazing and fun life. She is going to grow up resilient and strong just like her mother.