Book description
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! Nora Ephron (1941-2012) received Academy Award nominations
for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood, and
Sleepless in Seattle, which she also directed. She lived in New York
City and was married to the writer Nicholas Pileggi.
