Best Selling Books by Delia Ephron

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You''ve Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone). Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves. A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIME, Bustle, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Boston.com A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair

An electrifying New York Times bestselling novel about marriage and deceit that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. With her inimitable psychological astuteness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming. One of People Magazine’s Top 10 Books • A Washington Post Bestseller • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • One of Vulture’s 100 Greatest Beach Books Ever • A People Magazine Summer Reading Pick • One of Elle, InStyle, and Marie Claire’s Best of July • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 (Fiction)

Bestselling author Delia Ephron shares a deeply personal collection of stories and essays, anchored by a loving remembrance of her sister Nora. In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, sisterhood, movies, and family. In “Losing Nora,” she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship with her older sister and frequent writing companion. Other essays run the gamut from a humorous piece about love and the movies—how one romantic comedy completely destroyed her twenties—to the joy of girl friends and best friendship, the magical madness and miracle of dogs, keen-eyed observations about urban survival, and a serious and affecting memoir of life with her mother and growing up the child of alcoholics. Ephron’s eloquent style and voice illuminate every page of this superb and singular work.

Destined for a Christmas film release from Columbia Pictures, this heartfelt novel by the co-screenwriter of "Sleepless in Seattle" is about a woman trying to keep her life and her loose-cannon family in order. "Delia Ephron is blessed with the driest of wits, the tenderest of hearts, and an uncanny ear for the way people talk."--Armistead Maupin. The movie will star Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton.

Fed up with the injustices she suffers at the hands of her older brother, Violet organizes the younger siblings of the neighborhood into a formidable army to demand retribution and a change in the status quo.

"One of the sharpest observers of human behavior around."—Booklist (starred review) BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIRACUSA, coming in trade paperback on June 6, 2017! Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lana’s an audacious beauty, a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a holy-roller minister’s wife, desperate to escape her marriage. One warm summer’s night, these three women go on the lam together. Their car breaks down on a rural highway in North Carolina and they’re forced to seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned nightclub. Which is where they meet Marcel. And soon everything changes. Marcel, you see, is a lion. Written with the deftness, humor, and sparkling wit that mark her books, plays, and movies, Delia Ephron’s The Lion Is In is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage, love—and learning to salsa with the king of the jungle.

A winsome novel written with humor and heart about one woman''s attempt to deal with passion, guilt, single motherhood, and murder--from the author of Hanging Up and the writer/producer of Sleepless in Seattle and You''ve Got Mail.

“This book is for rebellious adults only. . . . Inspires instant recognition of childhoods past. . . . A joy.”—People Universal and timeless, Delia Ephron''s How to Eat Like a Child is a delightful revisiting of the joys—and tricky ploys—of childhood. Made into a children''s television special and a musical theater revue performed across the country each year, How to Eat Like a Child offers advice beyond the artful etiquette of food consumption. Ephron also teaches us "How to Laugh Hysterically," "How to Have a Birthday Party," "How to Torture Your Sister," and much, much more. As the Washington Post Book World noted, `After the giggles of recognition have subsided, one thing will be very clear: all adults are kids in grown-ups'' clothing."

"Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages"--

When fifteen-year-old Frannie''s father dies, only a mysterious jigsaw puzzle that he leaves behind can help her come to terms with his death.

Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there''s nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi''s. And if she can''t take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons, car chrome—anything available, really. So when her mother gives her an exquisite full-length mirror that once belonged to her grandmother, Sukie is thrilled. So thrilled that she doesn''t listen to her mother''s warning: “This mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy.” Because mirrors, as Sukie discovers, show not only the faraway truth but the truth close up. And finding out that close-up truth changes people. Often forever. Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron crafts a powerful novel of truth, beauty, and the secrets about family and friends that lie beneath perfection.

THE STORY: A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects--mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. Based on the bestselling book by

A pointed look at today''s American family focuses on the author''s husband, her ex-husband, her ex-husband''s new wife, and all their children.

The simple way to spectacular clothes - a guide to creative crochet.

Ils sont beaux, riches, américains. Ils ont décidé de partir ensemble découvrir Rome, puis Syracuse. Michael est écrivain, ancien lauréat du prix Pulitzer. Sa femme Lizzie est une journaliste en perte de vitesse. Finn est restaurateur et Taylor, son épouse, se dévoue entièrement à l''éducation de leur fille unique, Snow, une enfant énigmatique qui fait aussi partie du voyage. Tout est en place pour qu''ils passent des vacances de rêve dans des sites enchanteurs. Mais chacun arrive avec ses secrets, ses mensonges, ses non-dits, ses désirs inassouvis. Et petit à petit, dans les ruelles de la Sicile baroque, se noue une histoire vénéneuse, où les personnages avancent à la fois masqués et aveugles. Écrit avec brio et une grande finesse psychologique, ce roman d''amour et de trahison est aussi un suspense implacable et feutré, qui n''est pas sans rappeler Patricia Highsmith. " Un irrésistible roman pour les amateurs de thrillers psychologiques. " The Oprah Magazine " Une dissection remarquable et cruelle de deux mariages au bord de l''implosion. Delia Ephron est une virtuose. " Publishers Weekly