- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- ISBN: 9781446437506
- Length: 224 pages
- Price: £3.99
I Remember Nothing and other reflections
Memories and wisdom from the iconic writer and director
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I Remember Nothing and other reflections is Nora Ephron’s collection of personal essays looking back on ageing, memory and the experiences that shape a life. With characteristic wit and candour, she offers a first-person perspective on growing older while finding humour and insight in the everyday.
About the book
Forgetting things is nothing new to Nora Ephron: she knows she was writing about it as far back as her thirties, even if she can no longer remember exactly where. From that starting point, she turns her attention to the people, choices and episodes that have stayed with her, and those that have begun to disappear.
Her reflections move through journalism and career, her mother, divorce and the strange business of admitting that you are no longer simply getting older but actually old. Along the way, Ephron considers the habits, relationships and ordinary frustrations that accumulate over a lifetime, balancing sharp observation with moments of sentiment and loss.
The result is a book that can be read in pieces or in one sitting: a series of candid observations on what we remember, what we forget and what, in the end, we will and won’t miss.
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- Topics: Family; relationships; marriage and divorce; friendship; work; mortality
- Perspective: Personal and autobiographical
- Reading experience: Witty, warm and conversational
About the book
Forgetting things is nothing new to Nora Ephron: she knows she was writing about it as far back as her thirties, even if she can no longer remember exactly where. From that starting point, she turns her attention to the people, choices and episodes that have stayed with her, and those that have begun to disappear.
Her reflections move through journalism and career, her mother, divorce and the strange business of admitting that you are no longer simply getting older but actually old. Along the way, Ephron considers the habits, relationships and ordinary frustrations that accumulate over a lifetime, balancing sharp observation with moments of sentiment and loss.
The result is a book that can be read in pieces or in one sitting: a series of candid observations on what we remember, what we forget and what, in the end, we will and won’t miss.
Books similar to I Remember Nothing and other reflections
If you're looking for books similar to I Remember Nothing and other reflections, these books also explore women’s lives, relationships and growing older through personal experience and humour.
- I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron: Shares Ephron’s comic, personal approach to ageing, womanhood, relationships and everyday life. Where I Feel Bad About My Neck focuses more closely on appearance and the practical indignities of getting older, I Remember Nothing ranges further into memory, family, career, loss and mortality.
- The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend: Like Ephron, Townsend turns the frustrations and observations of everyday life into sharp, humorous non-fiction about middle age and relationships. Townsend’s perspective is more outward-looking and distinctly British in its social observation, while Ephron’s is more autobiographical and concerned with memory and later life.
- Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton: Both books use candid autobiographical writing and humour to reflect on love, friendship, relationships and changing with age. Alderton writes primarily about young adulthood and coming of age, while Ephron looks back from later life across decades of experience.
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- Paperback 2012
- Ebook 2011
- Audio Download 2026
