40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI
´I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel´ NIGELLA LAWSON
´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
Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a ´neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb´ is no consolation. 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. Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and most satisfyingly revenge.
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. And it is!
´It is snortingly funny in its depiction of the death throes of a relationship. And it bursts with recipes. What more could you ask for?´ ADAM KAY
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