INTRODUCED BY STANLEY TUCCI '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!
