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A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON’I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . .Heartburnis the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel’NIGELLA LAWSON’Never fails to make me laugh . . . I cannot get through more than five lines without cracking up’CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author ofQUEENIE, RED’A perfect example of Ephron’s gift for turning tragedy into comedy’PAULA HAWKINS, author ofTHE GIRL ON THE TRAIN’She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic’GAIL COLLINS,NEW YORK TIMESSeven 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.Heartburnis a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and most satisfyingly revenge.This is Nora Ephron’s (screenwriter ofWhen Harry Met SallyandSleepless in Seattle) roman 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 fortieth anniversary series include:Frost in Mayby Antonia White;The Collected Stories of Grace Paley;Fire from Heavenby Mary Renault;The Magic Toyshopby Angela Carter;The Weather in the Streetsby Rosamond Lehmann;Deep Waterby Patricia Highsmith;The Return of the Soldierby Rebecca West;Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston;Heartburnby Nora Ephron;The Dud Avocadoby Elaine Dundy;Memento Moriby Muriel Spark;A View of the Harbourby Elizabeth Taylor; andFaces in the Waterby Janet Frame
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