Edel Coffey

And let me just tell you how awful this heartbreak was.

She was married to Bernstein, who was one of the most famous journalists in the world at the time.

She had a son with him and she was expecting their second son.

She was seven months pregnant.

She discovered he's having an affair and the marriage breaks up.

And somehow she managed to turn this into the most perfect, biting comedy where she writes so wickedly about the woman he's having the affair with.

She writes wickedly about him.

And she makes herself... She maintains this kind of...

self-deprecating awareness of ourself.

But it's just, it's so wonderful.

It's a book that I give to everyone because you can read it at any stage of your life.

You can read it when you're in the depths of depression.

You can read it when you're happy and content.

You can always find something in it.

It's the perfect book to give, I think.

I think it is and I think it's one of the themes that we've sort of lost.

I think, so her rom-coms are particularly appealing and I think rom-coms come in and out of our lives sort of sociologically and historically when we're going through very difficult times.

So I think that's one of the other reasons she's experiencing a renaissance because everything's so dark and bleak geopolitically at the moment.

It's sometimes nice to escape into a film like this and her films are very much inspired by

those great romantic classics of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.