![]() ![]() He has been conducting a not-so-secret affair with their friend Thelma Rice, also married, and just about everyone else seems to know about it (‘She had her legs waxed in winter!’ Rachel’s friend says pointedly). She is 38 years old and 7 months pregnant when she discovers her husband, Mark, is not the man she thought he was. It never minimises the pain of a breakup, but the reader can be left in no doubt that the resourceful and witty Rachel is very much the independent heroine of her own story- not the victim of someone else’s actions. If I’d had my heartbroken by some no-good cad and were lounging, Bridget-Jones-style, in three day old PJs, waist-deep in snotty tissues, I know I would reach for Heartburn. Nora Ephron’s Introduction to ‘Heartburn’, 2004 I knew the moment my marriage ended it might make a book- if I could just stop crying I managed to convert an event that seemed to me hideously tragic at the time to a comedy – and if that’s not fiction I don’t know what is. ![]()
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