The inclusion of the recipes is to satisfy Rachels’s existing readership in her job as a cookbook writer. Reading Heartburn it’s easy to feel like the book has come from Rachel instead of Ephron. Themes that are relatively independent of how the world changes and contributes to Heartburn’s ability to feel contemporary. Readers may focus on Rachel wondering about how dating would work whilst she’s pregnant, her colouring in characters from her past with recipes she associates with them, or cursing the woman who her husband has cheated on her with there is something universal in these themes of flirting, food and heartbreak. Three themes that the book delivers against in an entertaining way. Dolly Alderton selected the book as a favourite due to its successful depiction of flirting, food, and heartbreak. Another reason why Heartburn perhaps feels modern is that it deals with universal themes that are relatively independent of how the world changes.
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