Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, is a British politician and former BBC television producer and presenter. She is a member of the Labour Party and is a daughter of James Callaghan, who wa
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Baroness Jay in 2009
Heartburn (novel)
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Heartburn is an autobiographical novel based on Nora Ephron's marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, her second husband. Originally published in 1983, the novel draws inspiration from events ari
Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
…Bernstein, with whom she had a much-publicised extramarital affair in 1979. Bernstein's then-wife Nora Ephron fictionalised the story in her novel, Heartburn, in which the character of Thelma is a thinly disguised representation of Jay. Peter Jay then had an affair with their nanny, fathering a child in the…
Heartburn