A remarkable book that explores the boundaries and the meaning of pain - and how conventional understanding and treatment are failing us.

An accessible and well-written book... [Dr Lyman] takes us into the world of pain: its weirdness, its growing pervasiveness and how it's been misunderstood for centuries.

Outrageously entertaining.

Brilliantly bawdy and movingly tender. A warm, generous and hilarious read, it's also a great listen: 2020 was the year I got into audiobooks and this one, read by the author herself, had me guffawing in public.

Honest, moving and funny... Brilliant... [Heawood] has written a tender book about parental love that she and her daughter should be proud of.

Hilarious... It is a charming, diverting, indie flick of a memoir, a joy to gulp down.

Beautiful, laugh-out-loud, honest and, on occasion, heartbreaking.

As funny as it is moving, The Hungover Games is a gorgeous read.

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.

Beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking... a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder.

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

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.

Gorgeous, unflinching, tender, sad, affirming and cackle-worthy. You don't need to be a mother, have one in your life or hope to become one, for the razor-sharp observations chronicled here to ring true.

I adored this debut memoir... Freewheeling, hugely funny... and genuinely soul-mining.

Ebullient, playful and creative... By turns caustic, astute and very, very funny.

This is the first time I've read anything about motherhood that didn't bore me... It's all really unconventional but laugh-out-loud funny.

Frank and fearless... a glorious validation to all parents doing it solo.

Hits that sweet spot between laugh-out-loud funny, with its accounts of first dates, LA wackiness and personal mishaps, and a lyrical lament for a life of paternity tests, an absent father and the absence of raves.

Joyfully crude and hilarious... Heawood is refreshingly unapologetic.

Achingly tender and snort-inducingly funny.

Thought-provoking and insightful.

Unflinchingly honest, emotionally raw, and surprisingly sweet.

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.

Heawood writes with warmth and wit about life as a single mother.

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.

[Heawood] shares her story with huge wit and sharp observation.

A tender and hilarious account of her life as a single mother.

This [is an] incredibly candid and often LOLs memoir about how it feels to raise a baby on your own when you're more into negronis than nappies.

Reading Heawood's often outrageous and occasionally undignified anecdotes was the perfect tonic during the second national lockdown. Though hilariously funny, her story of accidental pregnancy is also tender and poignant, with her accounts of motherhood feeling far less common through a single-parent lens.

A tender and funny account of single parenthood

Packed with humour and honesty, it's also tender, moving and relatable, detailing Heawood's own evolution and growth alongside her young daughter's, and the highs and lows of solo parenting.