I Feel Bad About My Neck

Few will troll these droll selections without being charmed to bits . . . Recall how hard it was last year to find a present for Mother's Day that wasn't yet one more box of chocolate? Remember this book. You'll thank me. It's perfect.

Lionel Shriver, Guardian

Laugh-out-loud.

Glamour

The key to Ephron's humour is likeability . . . she knows that the point of writing personal essays is to make readers say not "This woman is crazy" but "So you feel like that too, huh?"

The Oldie

Nobody does it funnier.

Maureen Lipman

Lots of good jokes, and a wonderfully amusing read.

Virginia Ironside

Had me in complete fits of laughter.

Judy Astley

Wry and amusing...brave and funny.

Washington Post

Executed with overall sharpness and panache...[Nora Ephron] retains an uncanny ability to sound like your best friend, whoever you are.

New York Times

Wickedly witty and astute...reflecting the perspective of an aging- but still crackling sharp - cultural scribe.

Boston Globe

A barrage of shareable anecdotes, humorous self-deprecation and womanly bravado...[a] gatherum of hard and funny truths.

New York Times Book Review

As funny and poignant as ever.

Ms

Use this wryly romantic book as a guide to musing about mortality, or just curling up in your empty nest.

O: Oprah Magazine

Wildly funny and, altough extremely accurate (at least for most of us), not remotely depressing...the perfect antidote to a dark month.

Joanna Trollope (in Psychologies)

One of the smartest, slickest looks at being a woman growing older . . . is a bit like having your own clever film narrator's voice accompanying you through the sticky bits of life: the grief of a sagging neck, the joy of a good handbag, the unremitting loss of a best friend and the effort of facing up to no longer being 50.

Good Housekeeping