Sons and Lovers is the second album by English singer Hazel O'Connor, released in November 1980 by Albion Records.

[3] Earlier in 1980, O'Connor had starred in the film Breaking Glass as well as writing and singing the soundtrack album.

The first two, "Ain't It Funny" and "Suffragette City", were recorded live at the Dominion Theatre in London and were the B-sides on the 12" release of "Time".

[3] Reviewing the album for Record Mirror, Simon Ludgate wrote "O'Connor desperately wants to be recognised just as a singer and the new image is a frantic attempt to prove that.

On the minus side, she exhibits a distressing tendency to overplay the importance of nearly every line she utters; consequently, even the best of her compositions on this first solo album proper come over as stilted, shrill and occasionally extremely annoying.

On one hand the urge to move away from her recent past, but on the other the music kept roughly the same format as Breaking Glass and she came over a bit melodramatic and actor-ish vocally" and that "the album did contain a fair dose of listenable New Wave Pop, the type of which was perhaps showing its age by the end of 1980, but still was enjoyable enough in small doses.