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British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

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The Break

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

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

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

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

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

The Break makes me laugh out loud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A gripping story with great heart, intensity and wisdom

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

At 44 Amy O'Connell thinks she's seen, heard or done it all. Until her husband Hugh announces he needs a break - from her. He is going backpacking for six months round Asia where he can do what he wants - and this is the scary bit - with anyone he wants. 
 
'WTAF?' thinks Amy. What's she to do? Stay loyal to disloyal Hugh? Allow her ex-husband back into her life? Run away herself? And what about the children? A lot can happen in six months. Will Hugh return as the same man? And will she still be the same woman there waiting for him?

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022*** 
 
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS, MARIAN KEYES 
 
'JUST BRILLIANT' SUNDAY TIMES 
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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? 
 
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 on one too? 
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'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 
 
Winner of 'Author of the Year' at the British Book Awards May 2022

The Break

British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

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