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.

'She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic' GAIL COLLINS, NEW YORK TIMES 'A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy' PAULA HAWKINS, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN 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. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.Ī BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffl‚.From the Oscar-nominated screenwriter ( When Harry Met Sally) and successful director (S leepless in Seattle), Nora Ephron comes a bittersweet autobiographical book about love and loss. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favourite recipes. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. The fact that the other woman has 'a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs' is no consolation.

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes.

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