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 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.įilled with witty and biting essays 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.Laugh-out-loud funny, irreverent and brutally honest, Nora Ephron captures the essence of what it means to be a woman growing older in a book that will strike chords of empathy, heartbreak, and hilarity with any woman who reads it. If I said to you 'I absolutely cannot stand my neck', you'd undoubtedly respond by saying something nice, like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' You'd be lying, of course, but I forgive you.

So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.With and introduction by 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. When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.

This is a brilliant collection for women of all ages to laugh at and appreciate. She recalls her mother telling her ‘Everything is copy,’ and she made a career out of it. I think the essence of what makes Nora’s work so readable is:ģ. Some subjects may appear trivial ( I Hate My Purse) but are tremendously entertaining and unifying – we all know someone with a handbag like Nora’s. Her essays Serial Monogamy: A Memoir and On Rapture respectively cover her love with cooking and reading. The essays were all feature articles in publications and news outlets including Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar and The New York Times.Īcross this collection, Nora tackles love, marriage, ageing, real-estate, parenting, death and more. I Feel Bad About My Neck – And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, is a collection of essays written by Ephron across her career as a journalist and magazine writer. She received Academy Award nominations for. I have previously reviewed Heartburn, which is, as Ephron admits, a thinly disguised novel of events that happened in her personal life. Nora Ephron was the author of the hugely successful I Feel Bad About My Neck, I Remember Nothing, and Heartburn.

She has the exact level of witty neuroticism that I aspire to in my own personal writing.

I hate my neck by nora ephron