THIS MONTH’S SUPPER WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE GREYHOUND, WIVENHOE

At our February gathering we’ll be talking about Nora Ephron’s Heartache.

‘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!’

Publisher’s Synopsis

Praise for the Novel

‘Not just the funniest novel ever written about divorce, but the funniest novel ever. Only the truly talented make writing as good as this look easy.’ Hadley Freeman

About the Author

Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep) and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers.

She was also an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Julie & Julia. She died in 2012.