- Published: 16 April 2018
- ISBN: 9781405918756
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 672
- RRP: $22.99
The Break
- Published: 16 April 2018
- ISBN: 9781405918756
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 672
- RRP: $22.99
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
Image
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