It didn’t appeal to me”), Alderton is currently single. Having deleted Hinge in lockdown (“lots of people were having these Zoom relationships. I read that girl and her big declarations that are so absolutist about the world, and I just would love to feel how she feels.” I sometimes feel cringed out when I read Everything I Know because it is so earnest and optimistic.
“People are having babies, people are losing babies, you start applying for mortgages. Thanks to Alderton’s talent for brutally funny social observation, Ghosts is not without laughs, but it is also, by her own admission, “quite sad and realistic about the disappointments and realities of life”. In Heartburn, Ephron “was exploring the most common relationship anxiety for women at the time,” she says, “which was: ‘Is my husband going to cheat on me?’ The thing I hear women talk about with fear most now is: ‘Is he going to disappear?’”
Nora Ephron’s 1983 book Heartburn – a thinly veiled autobiography about marriage and adultery, interwoven with retro recipes – is one Alderton turns to again and again in her work (“there’s a reason Nina’s a food writer”). Her father is succumbing to dementia she has grown apart from her best friend, who’s been sucked whole into motherhood and marriage and is also trying to understand the dark world of dating apps, and the ease with which someone can enter your life, profess their love and then vanish, without so much as a puff of smoke to prove any of it was real. We meet Nina – a successful food writer who lives in Archway – on her 32nd birthday, at the start of “the strangest” year of her life. Although, be warned: this book is far more cynical about all three. Of course, she still knows it is inevitable that people will ask whether Ghosts is about her – “It would be so illogical to be impatient about that.” Especially since the book hinges on the themes – modern love, relationships and friendship – Alderton made her name in.
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