Some Day This Will Be A Funny Story

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and best, taking a hilarious look at the past and bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life—and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.<BR><BR>In these pages she takes us from her first job in the mailroom at Newsweek to the six stages of email, from memories of her parents’ whirlwind dinner parties to her own life now full of Senior Moments (or, as she calls them, Google moments), from her greatest career flops to her most treasured joys. <BR><BR>Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true, I Remember Nothing is a delightful, poignant gift from one of our finest writers.

A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON'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' NIGELLA LAWSON'Never fails to make me laugh . . . I cannot get through more than five lines without cracking up' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE, RED'A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy' PAULA HAWKINS, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN'She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic' GAIL COLLINS, NEW YORK TIMESSeven 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 (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) roman à 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!Books included in the VMC fortieth anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Soak up the wisdom of the inimitable Nora Ephron with this stunning 20th-anniversary special edition, featuring a foreword by Dolly Alderton. The perfect gift for yourself or a friend. <BR><BR>'Ephron has an uncanny ability to sound like your best friend, whoever you are' NEW YORK TIMES.<BR><BR>'The book that most influenced me' LILY ALLEN<BR><BR>Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron examines the indignities of ageing in a collection of wickedly witty autobiographical pieces such as 'I Hate My Handbag', 'Blind as a Bat' and 'What I Wish I'd Known'. I Feel Bad About My Neck offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs droop, your skin wrinkles and your children don't appreciate you, someone has been there before you.<BR><BR>Nora Ephron captures the essence of what it means to be an older woman in an irresistible, laugh-out-loud funny, frank and unexpectedly moving book that every woman should have on their shelves.

40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI'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' NIGELLA LAWSON'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' AMY POEHLERSeven 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 (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) 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!'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 KAYPART OF THE VIRAGO DESIGNER COLLECTION. COVER FEATURES TEXTILE DESIGN BY ELZA SUNDERLAND

Im siebten Monat ihrer Schwangerschaft erfährt Rachel, dass ihr Mann in eine andere Frau verliebt ist und sie mit ihr betrügt. Die Tatsache, dass diese Frau einen 'Hals so lang wie ein Arm und eine Nase so lang wie ein Daumen' hat, ist kein Trost. Aber manchmal ist Essen ein Trost, denn Rachel ist Kochbuchautorin, und zwischen dem Versuch, Mark zurückzugewinnen, und dem Wunsch, ihn umzubringen, bietet sie uns einige ihrer Lieblingsrezepte. Heartburn ist eine Achterbahnfahrt der Liebe, des Verrats, des Verlusts und - am befriedigendsten - der Rache.

A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS<BR><BR>'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLIST<BR><BR>INCLUDING:<BR><BR>* Nora's much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism<BR><BR>* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn<BR><BR>* Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Met Sally<BR><BR>* Unparalleled advice about friends, lovers, divorces, desserts and black turtleneck sweaters<BR><BR><BR>'It's got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures' ELLE<BR><BR><BR>*PRAISE FOR NORA EPHRON*<BR><BR>'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE<BR><BR>'Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief' DOLLY ALDERTON<BR><BR>'Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest friend you could have' NIGELLA LAWSON<BR><BR>'I am only the one of millions of women who will miss Nora's voice' LENA DUNHAM

"Ich bin ein Riesenfan, fast schon Ephronologin." Dolly AldertonNora Ephron ist Kult und dies ist ihr Kultbuch: Darin schreibt sie darüber, was es bedeutet, eine moderne Frau zu sein, deckt Tücken und Freuden, Hürden, Probleme und Chancen auf, und die kleinen Details, die wir alle zu gut kennen - vom ideellen Wert einer Handtasche über Diskriminierungen im Job bis hin zu grenzenloser Liebe zu Essen und den ersten Falten: ehrlich, klug, witzig und keineswegs gradlinig romantisch. Nicht zuletzt sind Ephrons Geschichten eine große Liebeserklärung an ihre Wahlheimat New York City. Ein absolutes Muss für jede Frau jeden Alters!

'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-Bridge<BR><BR>Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life.<BR><BR>* Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.<BR><BR>* If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit.<BR><BR>* When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.<BR><BR>* If only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game.<BR><BR>* Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for by the age of forty-five.<BR>__________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>'I give this as a present more than other book. I buy it for people so often that I've been known to give girlfriends two copies, one birthday after another' - Dolly Alderton<BR>__________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>'I am only one of millions of women who will miss Nora's voice' Lena Dunham<BR><BR>'Oh how I loved Nora Ephron' Nigella Lawson<BR><BR>'Funny, knowing and smart' India Knight<BR><BR>'The book that most influenced me' Lily Allen<BR><BR>'Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief' Dolly Alderton