Heartburn

'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 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! Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley ; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

About the author

Nora Ephron

Product details

• Authors: Nora Ephron, Ephron Nora
• Assisted by: Delia Ephron (Introduction), Nora Ephron (Introduction), Ephron Delia (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780349010359
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01035-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 194 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; 40th Anniversary Edition; Virago Modern Classics; 40th Anniversary Edition
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION / Classics, contemporary romance, Humour, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction