![]() ![]() ‘It is snortingly funny in its depiction of the death throes of a relationship. This is Nora Ephron’s (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) roman a clef: ‘I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,’ she once said. She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep) and journalist. Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and most satisfyingly revenge. Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Youve Got Mail and Julie & Julia. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. I kept a copy of Nora Ephrons Heartburn next to me as a reminder of how to be funny and truthful, and all I ended up. The fact that this woman has a ‘neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb’ is no consolation. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. ![]() ‘I kept a copy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn next to me as a reminder of how to be funny and truthful, and all I ended up doing was ignoring my writing and rereading Heartburn’ AMY POEHLER Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other. 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI ![]()
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