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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 31/05/2018
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ISBN: 9781405918756
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Length: 672 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 37mm x 129mm
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Weight: 484g
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RRP: £7.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER & SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
'The Break is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest, glorious best' Nina Stibbe
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'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.'
'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?'
If only.
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 in South-East Asia. And nothing she says can stop him.
But when does a break become a break-up?
For a lot can happen in six months. And it's enough to send Amy and her family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers teetering over the edge.
When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married?
Will Amy be the same woman?
Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then isn't she?
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'Just brilliant' Sunday Times
'Mercilessly funny' The Times
'I laughed . . . I cried' Daily Mail
'Full of darkness and light, this is Keyes at her classic and most brilliant best' Red
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 31/05/2018
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ISBN: 9781405918756
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Length: 672 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 37mm x 129mm
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Weight: 484g
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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<b>Involving and beautifully told . . . There's a reason why Marian Keyes is the queen of commercial women's fiction</b>
i Newspaper
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Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny
The Times
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<b><i>The Break</i> races along with Keyes' trademark energy, lightness of touch and plenty of laughs</b>
Sunday Express
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<b><i>The Break</i> makes me laugh out loud</b>
Sunday Express
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<b>Breathlessly entertaining</b>
Connaught Telegraph
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<b>Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. A breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman rediscovering herself</b>
Metro
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<b>Girl-power at its best. I laughed . . . I cried</b>
Daily Mail
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<p><b>Another belter. Full of brilliantly fun characters, genuine emotion and heaps of charm. We loved it!</b><br><b></b></p>
Heat
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<b>A snappy narrator and a raucous cast of characters</b> <b>make <i>The Break</i> another classic from Marian Keyes</b>
Sunday Express
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Fabulously entertaining. Classic Keyes. The queen of intelligent women's fiction
Sunday Mirror
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A pleasure. Keyes writes women who are absolutely themselves, even when society tries to insist they be something else
Irish Times
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Hilariously wise
Prima
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Marian Keyes's latest novel will have you enraged one moment. Half laughing. Half crying the next. While nodding in recognition
Psychologies
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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
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There is no finer writer than Marian Keyes and <i>The Break</i> 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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Underline Keyes' status as an international treasure. The ultimate choice for a binge read
Stylist
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A gripping story with great heart, intensity and wisdom
Sunday Business Post
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Hilarious and moving, a zeitgeisty look at how couples splinter or stay together in the face of life's obstacles
Irish Times
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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
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I absolutely LOVED <i>The Break</i> - such energy, wit and good humour
Fanny Blake, author and books editor, Woman & Home
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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
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Hilariously warm and wonderful
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<p><b>Amy's husband Hugh has run away to <i>'find himself'</i>. But will he ever come back? </b></p><p><b>'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.'</b><br><b>'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?'</b></p><p>If only.</p>
from the publisher's description
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<b>September's best pulse-quickening pager-turner. Marian Keyes at her most classic and brilliant best</b>
Red
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<b>Fabulously entertaining, classic Keyes . . . a delightful reminder of why best selling Keyes has earned her crown as the queen of intelligent woman's fiction </b>
The People
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<b>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</b>
Stylist
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<b>Cause for celebration . . . An engrossing novel full of wit and warmth. The humour never once detracts from the emotional depth.</b>
Red
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<b>Cause for jubilation . . . This proves her to be the reigning queen of British chick lit . . . insightful, funny and poignant</b>
Daily Mail
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Gloriously funny
The Sunday Times
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Funny but poignant
Marie Claire
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A total triumph
Daily Mail
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Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud
Stylist
