The Break

Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back? 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only.

from the publisher's description

Hilariously wise

Prima

Marian Keyes writes about modern relationships and families with brutal yet endearing honesty, wonderful humour and astonishing acumen

Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things

There is no finer writer than Marian Keyes and The Break is her at the top of the game; funny, real, with characters that speak to all of us. Only Keyes can combine pathos and humour with such effortless skill, to produce a novel that stays with you long after you've turned the final page

Rowan Coleman, author of The Summer of Impossible Things

I bloody loved it. Many moments of comic genius, empathy and heartbreak. She really is unparalleled when it comes to making serious points with the lightest of touches.

The Pool

I absolutely LOVED The Break - such energy, wit and good humour

Fanny Blake, author and books editor, Woman & Home

One of the most reliably brilliant novelists writing with humour and insight about women's lives, I think Keyes gets better and better

Alice O'Keeffe, The Bookseller

Another belter. Full of brilliantly fun characters, genuine emotion and heaps of charm. We loved it!

Heat

Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny

The Times

Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. A breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman rediscovering herself

Metro

Fabulously entertaining. Classic Keyes. The queen of intelligent women's fiction

Sunday Mirror

Underline Keyes' status as an international treasure. The ultimate choice for a binge read

Stylist

A pleasure. Keyes writes women who are absolutely themselves, even when society tries to insist they be something else

Irish Times

A gripping story with great heart, intensity and wisdom

Sunday Business Post

Hilarious and moving, a zeitgeisty look at how couples splinter or stay together in the face of life's obstacles

Irish Times

Hilariously warm and wonderful

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Girl-power at its best. I laughed . . . I cried

Sarah Lawrence, Daily Mail

Marian Keyes's latest novel will have you enraged one moment. Half laughing. Half crying the next. While nodding in recognition

Psychologies

The Break races along with Keyes' trademark energy, lightness of touch and plenty of laughs

Sunday Express

The Break is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest, glorious best

Nina Stibbe

Breathlessly entertaining

Connaught Telegraph

The Break makes me laugh out loud

Tess Daly, Sunday Express

A snappy narrator and a raucous cast of characters make The Break another classic from Marian Keyes

Sunday Express

Involving and beautifully told . . . There's a reason why Marian Keyes is the queen of commercial women's fiction

i Newspaper

There is such a variety of stories and the characters are believable and relatable. She writes funny parts, but then there are those moments that knock you down with sadness

Libby Page, bestselling author of The Lido, Woman & Home

An addictive book . . . lust and desire is described brilliantly

Independent

Cause for celebration . . . An engrossing novel full of wit and warmth. The humour never once detracts from the emotional depth.

Red

Cause for jubilation . . . This proves her to be the reigning queen of British chick lit . . . insightful, funny and poignant

Daily Mail

Fabulously entertaining, classic Keyes . . . a delightful reminder of why best selling Keyes has earned her crown as the queen of intelligent woman's fiction

The People

September's best pulse-quickening pager-turner. Marian Keyes at her most classic and brilliant best

Red

The ultimate choice . . . filled with the author's signature themes, think turbulent relationships, tricky families and the need for self-belief. Keyes' [is] an international treasure

Stylist

Praise for Marian Keyes

A total triumph

Daily Mail

Funny but poignant

Marie Claire

Gloriously funny

The Sunday Times

Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud

Stylist