Seven 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!