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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. ´WTF?´ thinks Amy. What´s she to do?Allow her ex-husband back into her life? Run away herself? A lot can happen in six months...

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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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´Mercilessly funny´ The Times

´Just brilliant´ Sunday 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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Involving and beautifully told . . . There´s a reason why Marian Keyes is the queen of commercial women´s fiction i Newspaper

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Keyes, Marian
Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel´s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Woman Who Stole My Life and The Break. Her journalism, collected under two titles, Making It Up As I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition, containing the original publications Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available from Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.

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