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'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.
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'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
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'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

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4 September 2008
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"Wickedly witty. . . . Crackling sharp. . . . Fireworks shoot out [of this collection]." --The Boston Globe"Long-overdue. . . . Executed with sharpness and panache . . . . [Nora Ephron] retains an uncanny ability to sound like your best friend, whoever you are. . . . It's good to know that Ms. Ephron's wry, knowing X-ray vision is one of them." --The New York Times"Women who find themselves somewhere between the arrival of their first wrinkle and death have to hear only the title to get the message."--Los Angeles Times"Wry and amusing. . . . Marvelous." --The Washington Post Book World --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Hilarious anecdotal memoir in Grumpy Old Women vein by Hollywood screenwriter / director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Nora Ephron was the author of the bestselling I Feel Bad About My Neck as well as Heartburn, Crazy Salad, Wallflower at the Orgy, and Scribble Scribble. She wrote and directed the hit movie Julie & Julia and received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally. . ., Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, which she also directed. Her other credits include the script for the stage hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore with Delia Ephron. She died in 2012.

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The Academy Award winning screenwriter and director, whose credits include "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless In Seattle", turns her sharp wit on her own life in this amusing book about being a woman who's growing older. A new, sophisticated package for Mother's Day, this has sold over 800,000 copies in hardback. 'Wildly funny and, although extremely accurate (at least for most of us), not remotely depressing.' Joanna Trollope --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can shoot collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery, there’s not a damn thing you can do about a neck. Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with wickedly witty autobiographical pieces like 'I Hate My Handbag', 'Blind as a Bat' and 'What I Wish I'd Known', this book 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. Nora Ephron captures the essence of what it means to be a grumpy old woman, in a laugh-out-loud funny, frank and unexpectedly moving book that will be an irresistible treat for any woman who reads it. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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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 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0031RS3TE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transworld Digital (4 September 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 162 pages

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Nora Ephron has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, which she also directed. She lived in New York City with her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi.

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Entertains short read for a flight!

Reviewed in Australia on 4 August 2017

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An easy read from this highly neurotic writer! Ups and downs in the reading experience - glad it was short

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Judith watkins

I feel bad about my neck

Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2014

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A very funny book! Some years ago one of my young grandaughters was heard to say " every thing about grandma is good except the neck" Out of the mouth of babes!!

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Constance Reader

Perfect bedside book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2018

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This is a touching and funny book by genius writer Nora Ephron (writer of when Harry met Sally among others). It helped me understand why me and all my friends developed a fondness for scarves as we approach 50. Now I know! It has a lovely message overall- enjoy life NOW- especially if you are young enough to have a taut neck!

It's funny and irreverent and written in short chapters on different themes, a bit like listening to a comedienne.

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Itsjustme

Such a laugh!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2019

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This was a very enjoyable read. Nora speaks for probably every woman of a certain age. If any of you are feeling depressed about your neck or anything else that’s getting you down about aging, I recommend this book. Since getting older sucks, but is inevitable, it’s best to have a look at the funny side of things. It’s amazing how much better you feel when you realise we all have, more or less, the same issues, challenges as well as blessings. Time out for a good laugh is a real tonic. Thank you Nora and rest in peace.

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Emi Bevacqua

Such a great read, for women of any age

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2020

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The Independent calls Nora Ephron "America's favourite naughty aunt" and Boris Johnson's sister sums her up thusly, "No one wrote more amusingly about the important things in women's lives - love, betrayal, heartbreak, children, parents, sex, ageing, dating, dieting,... the death of romance, death itself". I would only add to that list: happiness, and cooking.

I read this and laughed along throughout, nodding in agreement, and feeling amazed that Nora Ephron got me, so completely. She must have lived her life surrounded by women telling her their problems, stories and annoyances, if I could have I certainly would have! So humorous and relatable, so wise and yet self-deprecating. If I were lucky enough to be her friend I would have told her when I disagreed with her, that wearing black with gray hair doesn't really make you look older or sadder, and that bread in America is actually not so unbelievably delicious compared to in Europe. And I would thank her for her great advice: to write everything down, keep a journal, go see a lawyer and file the papers the minute you decide to get divorced, overtip, to never let them know, and that there are no secrets.

Nora included that advice in 2006 in a piece titled, What I Wish I'd Known article for Harper's, the same year she published I Feel Bad About My Neck, this lovely collection of her work. The last two entries on the list above make me so sad, figuring that she had contracted leukemia by the time she wrote that, and that she lived with that secret that she didn't consider a secret for six years.

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belinda dennis

Time and money waster

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2019

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I am very disappointed in this book... disappointed I actually paid for it. I simply cannot relate. It is not funny, not vaguely interesting and has not offered me any insights. I only finished it because I thought surely it will get better? It didn’t. Don’t waste your money.

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Mary S

Glorious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2021

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If you've not discovered Nora Ephron, start with this. It's a little gem of a book - the woman is a genius and a funny, clever writer. Topics up for discussion by her in this book include parenting, love, relationships, the state of her ageing neck and the contents of her handbag. A book that every woman should have and re-read endlessly.

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