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 woman with whom Bernstein had an affair was Margaret Jay, who was the wife of the British Ambassador to the United States, and daughter of British Prime Minister James Callaghan. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. This movie was based on Nora Ephron s real-life marriage to, and divorce from, Carl Bernstein, and the birth of their two sons.

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. TRUE, its hard at times to avoid reading Nora Ephrons first novel, Heartburn, as a documentary account of the authors marital. Mostly auto-biography, letting us set right there and watch her marriage to the ' Watergate/ All The Presidents Men' author Carl Bernstein. My favorite recipe was a simple, delicious mashed potato recipe. This is Nora Ephrons (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in. Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson And she included several easy and yummy recipes. Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true. Heartburn ’s truth-telling is couched in a voice that is both intimate and piercingly sharp, welcoming you in as it observes others at an ironic distance. 'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other.

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