Edel Coffey
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144 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Edel Coffey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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.
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