It is snortingly funny in its depiction of the death throes of a relationship. And it bursts with recipes. What more could you ask for?
Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more)
India Knight [Ephron] chatters up a ... Read morestorm, always on the verge of wisecracking up
Guardian
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. There is not a wrong word - about food, marriage, life, love, loss
Nigella Lawson Heartburn took the most miserable personal situation and made it hysterically funny, inspiring and utterly relatable to women of all ages. I became obsessed with its author and thinly disguised heroine.
Sali Hughes
Stylist
I am not a great reader of comic novels, but Ephron's hilarious, recipe-strewn, semi-autobiographical account of a heavily pregnant woman whose husband has left her for a woman with a 'neck as long as an arm' is a treat. A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy, Heartburn is evidence that revenge is indeed a dish best served cold
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Show Less