![]() COVER FEATURES TEXTILE DESIGN BY ELZA SUNDERLANDĤ0TH 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. What more could you ask for?' ADAM KAY PART OF THE VIRAGO DESIGNER COLLECTION. ![]() And it is! '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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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