''Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt''

Independent on Sunday

''This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini''

Sunday Times

''Sharp as a knife''

Daily Express

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In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing older, and everything she will and won't miss. Filled with Nora's trademark wit, wisdom and warmth.

* No one actually likes to admit they're old. The most they will cop to is that they're older. Or oldish.

* Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

* I have been forgetting things for years—at least since I was in my thirties. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time. I have proof. Of course, I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it, or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

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Praise for Nora Ephron

''So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it'' Phoebe Waller-Bridge

''Oh how I loved Nora Ephron'' Nigella Lawson

''Funny, knowing and smart'' India Knight

''Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief'' Dolly Alderton