Such a ploy invites interaction from the reader – you want to whip up her recipe for Key Lime Pie while you roundly curse her feckless husband and his too-tall lover. I have a particular weakness for novels that scatter their text with recipes and cooking tips – and Ephron's text combines both epicure and epithet. Her world is thrown into turmoil and she attempts to retain a modicum of control through the comforting certainty of cookery. The heroine is Rachel Samstat, a thirty-something, heavily pregnant Jewish food writer who seems to have it all until she discovers her partner is planning to move in with another. It will come as no surprise to the reader that Heartburn is one of Nigella Lawson's favourite books. Summary: A thinly-disguised fictionalisation of the breakup of her marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein delivers epicure and epithet.
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