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 * The Break is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest, glorious best -- Nina Stibbe The Break races along with Keyes' trademark energy, lightness of touch and plenty of laughs * Sunday Express * Breathlessly entertaining * Connaught Telegraph * Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. A breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman rediscovering herself * Metro * Girl-power at its best. I laughed . . . I cried -- Sarah Lawrence * Daily Mail * 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 * Fabulously entertaining. Classic Keyes. The queen of intelligent women's fiction * Sunday Mirror * A pleasure. Keyes writes women who are absolutely themselves, even when society tries to insist they be something else * Irish Times * Hilariously wise * Prima * Marian Keyes's latest novel will have you enraged one moment. Half laughing. Half crying the next. While nodding in recognition * Psychologies * 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 * Stylist * 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 * 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 * Hilariously warm and wonderful * Image * September's best pulse-quickening pager-turner. Marian Keyes at her most classic and brilliant best * Red * 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 * 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 * 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 * Praise for Marian Keyes -- - Gloriously funny * The Sunday Times * Funny but poignant * Marie Claire * A total triumph * Daily Mail * Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud * Stylist *