There is not a wrong word - about food, marriage, life, love, loss Full of cynicism and gags, this autobiographical novel is comic writing at its finest - Andrew Billen * The Times * Heartburn took the most miserable personal situation and made it hysterically funny, inspiring and utterly relatable to women of all ages. Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel. She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic - Gail Collins * New York Times * I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other. She is the exact opposite of Dorothy Parker. A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy, Heartburn is evidence that revenge is indeed a dish best served cold chatters up a storm, always on the verge of wisecracking up * Guardian * What really interested Ephron, for all her clever writing about food, politics and overcluttered purses, were matters of the heart. I am not a great reader of comic novels, but Ephron's hilarious, recipe-strewn, semi-autobiographical account of a heavily pregnant woman whose husband has left her for a woman with a 'neck as long as an arm' is a treat. COVER FEATURES TEXTILE DESIGN BY ELZA SUNDERLAND ‘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.
Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and most satisfyingly revenge. 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.
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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