Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman.
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!.
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.
The fact that this woman has a \'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb\' is no consolation.
Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman