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Author: Ephron, Nora

New York

Published on 9 January 2020 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Doubleday) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
128 x 194 x 15 | 168g

‘So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don’t know how she did it’ – Phoebe Waller-BridgeNow 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