I Feel Bad About My Neck

with a new introduction from Dolly Alderton

Nora Ephron, Dolly Alderton

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Doubleday
17 March 2020

Individual film directors, film-makers; Film movie scripts & screenplays; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage; Humour

NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM DOLLY ALDERTON, revealing how a new generation can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life- the international No.1 bestseller by the creator of When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn, and Sleepless in Seattle.

'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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.
* Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
* If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit.
* When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
* If only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game.
* 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.

'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

'I am only one of millions of women who will miss Nora's voice' Lena Dunham

'Oh how I loved Nora Ephron' Nigella Lawson

'Funny, knowing and smart' India Knight

'The book that most influenced me' Lily Allen

'Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief' Dolly Alderton

By: Nora Ephron
Introduction by: Dolly Alderton
Imprint: Doubleday
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 157g
ISBN: 9780857526939
ISBN 10: 0857526936
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nora Ephron was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia. She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep), and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers. She died in 2012.

Reviews for I Feel Bad About My Neck: with a new introduction from Dolly Alderton

The book that most influenced me... It triggered me to write my own book, and ask myself questions about who I was, what kind of woman I am and how the world had shaped me. * LILY ALLEN, Guardian * So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it. * PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE, Vogue *