Amy’s husband Hugh says he isn’t leaving her.
He still loves her, he’s just taking a break – from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in south-east Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it.
Yes, it’s a mid-life crisis, but let’s be clear: a break isn’t a break up – yet . . .
However, for Amy it’s enough to send her – along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers – teetering over the edge.
For a lot can happen in six-months. When Hugh returns if he returns, will he be the same man she married? And will Amy be the same woman?
Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then isn’t she?
The Break isn’t a story about falling in love but about staying in love. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best.
‘A glorious life-affirming novel with Keyes on top form’
Woman & Home
'Girl-power at its best. I laughed…I cried'
Daily Mail
'Just brilliant'
Sunday Times Magazine
‘Marian’s glorious, warm-hearted wit is always guaranteed to make me laugh on the very first page’
Liane Moriarty
‘Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold’
Cosmopolitan
‘Clever, hilarious, poignant . . . Gloriously funny’
Sunday Times
‘Another chart-topping blockbuster from goddess Marian Keyes . . . packed with sound writing, wit and common sense’
Guardian
'Hilariously wise'
Prima
'Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. This is a breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman'
Metro
'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
'I bloody loved it. Locmof = lifegoals! Amongst many other moments of comic genius, empathy and heartbreak. She really is unparalleled when it comes to making serious points with the lightest of touches.'
Sam Baker, Editor-in-Chief, The Pool
'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
‘A glorious life-affirming novel with Keyes on top form’
Woman & Home
'Girl-power at its best. I laughed…I cried'
Daily Mail
'Just brilliant'
Sunday Times Magazine
‘Marian’s glorious, warm-hearted wit is always guaranteed to make me laugh on the very first page’
Liane Moriarty
‘Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold’
Cosmopolitan
‘Clever, hilarious, poignant . . . Gloriously funny’
Sunday Times
‘Another chart-topping blockbuster from goddess Marian Keyes . . . packed with sound writing, wit and common sense’
Guardian
'Hilariously wise'
Prima
'Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. This is a breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman'
Metro
'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
'I bloody loved it. Locmof = lifegoals! Amongst many other moments of comic genius, empathy and heartbreak. She really is unparalleled when it comes to making serious points with the lightest of touches.'
Sam Baker, Editor-in-Chief, The Pool
'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
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