Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia. She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep) and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers. She died in 2012.
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. A perfect example of Ephron's gift for
turning tragedy into comedy, Heartburn is evidence that
revenge is indeed a dish best served cold
[Ephron] 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.
She is the exact opposite of Dorothy Parker. 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 . . . Heartburn is the
perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true
confessional novel. 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. I became obsessed with its
author and thinly disguised heroine * Stylist *
Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and
as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more)
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?
Not just the funniest novel ever written about divorce, but the
funniest novel ever. Only the truly talented make writing as good
as this look easy -- Hadley Freeman * The Week *
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
The real magic of the novel comes from Ephron's nonchalant
conversationalism -- Helen Rosner * New Yorker *
Simply one of the greatest novels involving food ever written from
the writer of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in
Seattle. It's about love, sex, adultery and key lime pie -- Jay
Rayner
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