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Heartburn : Virago Modern Classics : Virago Modern Classics - Nora Ephron

Heartburn : Virago Modern Classics

By: Nora Ephron

Paperback | 8 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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This autobiographical novel by Nora Ephron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally) and successful director (Sleepless in Seattle), is a bittersweet and very funny book about love and loss. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

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 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
Industry Reviews
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

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

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 - Nigella Lawson

[Ephron] chatters up a storm, always on the verge of wisecracking up - Guardian

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