![[By Marian Keyes] The Break (Hardcover)【2017】by Marian Keyes (Author) [1869] Hardcover – 2017](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41hV3OUqJ9L.jpg)
'Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny' The Times 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. 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? Will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then so is she . . . The Break is a story about the choices we make and how those choices help to make us. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best. Read more
L**V
Five Stars
Loved the book. It's hard to beat Marian's sense of humor.
K**R
we see the joy and the frustrations that only close family can bring ...
This was a book where Amy, our central character, sees life as she knows it implode beyond her control when her husband decides he needs some time to explore and discover himself. This makes her evaluate her own life and choices at a time when her family all seem to be growing away from her and the comfort of familiarity becomes increasingly out of reach. As with most families there is a wide range of characters to explore and some complicated family dynamics; this is so true to life and Keyes presents the complicated tapestry that is family with humour and sensitivity; we see the joy and the frustrations that only close family can bring us. The women in the story are more sympathetically portrayed and more three dimensional than the men. Interactions between Amy and her parents and Amy and her daughters made me laugh out loud but also had a poignancy that was unexpectedly emotional to read.It took me a little while to settle into this story but I did really enjoy it as a moving and thought provoking portrayal of family and how we have to weave and move with life and its ever changing tides.
G**N
Wonderful.
A wonderful book and I loved it, laugh out loud funny and I wanted it to go on and on. Sad I've finished it.
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