Sophie Heawood, THE HUNGOVER GAMES

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Sophie Heawood is every bit as funny, raw, and honest as her memoir. She talks to Zibby about trading a rock-and-roll lifestyle for unexpected single motherhood and her story of growing up with her daughter.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear, please follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:22.2	Thanks so much for listening. Enjoy it. Today's episode was sponsored by Nest Notes, which is a company
0:26.8	founded by a mom named Chase Simmering, who's in Miami, and they create print keepsakes that tell
0:32.3	stories, which, as you all know, stories are like my favorite thing, whether they're family
0:36.4	stories or stories of the places we call home.
0:39.2	So shop kids stationary and paper goods and little journals and all the rest at this amazing company, nestnotes.com.
0:46.3	I had the best time talking to Sophie Haywood, spelled H-E-A-W-O-O-D, who wrote a hilarious and also-moving memoir called The Hungover Games about
0:55.5	single motherhood.
0:56.8	Sophie grew up in Yorkshire, where she developed an early understanding of celebrity as the
1:01.0	only vegetarian in the local state school, and she wrote earnest letters to the South African
1:05.6	ambassador about apartheid at age 10.
1:08.6	She later studied languages at King's College and Burke Beck, both part of
1:12.4	London University, while working nights as the door girl in the legendary nightclub called
1:16.8	trash. She has also lived in Barcelona working as an opair, in Hong Kong working as an extra
1:22.1	in Chinese soap operas, and in Los Angeles, where she interviewed the famous and wrote columns
1:26.6	on Modern Life for publications including the Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue, and Vice Magazine.
1:32.8	She was nominated for Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards 2019.
1:37.5	She lives in Hackney, East London, with her daughter and hasn't quite stopped nightclubbing yet.
1:42.2	Welcome, Sophie. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to
1:46.2	discuss the Hungover Games. So excited to have you on.
1:50.0	Oh, thank you for having me. I'm thrilled.
1:51.8	Your book was so funny. I mean, literally from the opening paragraph through to the end,
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