Press Reviews

• Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

  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

• Sali Hughes

  Stylist

  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

• Nigella Lawson

  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

• Guardian

  [Ephron] chatters up a storm, always on the verge of wisecracking up

• India Knight

  Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more)

• Adam Kay

  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?

• Hadley Freeman

  The Week

  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

• Amy Poehler

  I kept a copy of Nora Ephron's Heartburn next to me as a reminder of how to be funny and truthful, and all I ended up doing was ignoring my writing and rereading Heartburn

• Helen Rosner

  New Yorker

  The real magic of the novel comes from Ephron's nonchalant conversationalism

• Andrew Billen

  The Times

  Full of cynicism and gags, this autobiographical novel is comic writing at its finest

• Gail Collins

  New York Times

  What really interested Ephron, for all her clever writing about food, politics and overcluttered purses, were matters of the heart. She is the exact opposite of Dorothy Parker. She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic

• Jay Rayner

  Simply one of the greatest novels involving food ever written from the writer of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. It's about love, sex, adultery and key lime pie

• Independent

  This book taught me about love, loss and writing. It's a timeless classic