Edel Coffey

And so she, you know, she had this kind of access to Hollywood and her parents would have known really famous people.

But she always sort of described herself as an outsider.

And as soon as she could leave L.A., she went back to New York.

So she always had that yearning for New York.

And we see that in her films as well.

So back she went to New York where she worked as a journalist in Newsweek and she worked as a male girl there.

As you would expect at the time, women weren't, you know,

number one in the journalism world.

But she worked her way up as she actually got a job in the New York Post, having written a parody of a New York Post journalist in Newsweek.

So they were like, well, if she can parody us this well, let's hire her.

So off she went.

And it was after that that she got married to the Watergate journalist, Carl Bernstein, and he became the subject of a romantic play, which is Harp.

Burn, which is experiencing such a renaissance at the moment.

Loads of people talking about it online.

I think it's because Natalie Portman made it her book club choice.

So a lot of people are just rediscovering her.

Oh, 100%.

And a lot of people aren't even aware that Heartburn wasn't a novel first because she turned it into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1986.

The book came out in 1983.

But it's so brilliant because she makes heartbreak hilarious.