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The Break
by Marian Keyes
I received this book from Penguin Ireland in exchange for an honest review.
Amy believes she is happily married to her husband of 20 years when suddenly he turns around, and tells her he wants a break - from their life and their marriage - for six months. Amy is devastated but allows Hugh to walk away from her and then realises her life doesn't have to stop either. She can also be on a break and possibly rediscover herself and what she really wants too.
I really enjoyed the majority of this book. It was very witty, and fun and I really felt for Amy throughout the novel as a mother of three just trying to keep everything together, and also not eat too much cheese, drink all the wine and spend all her money online shopping! Marian Keyes' voice came through so warmly in this story, and at times I felt like I could hear her narrate it to me. I could see so much of her own online personality in Amy and I really liked it.
I thought Amy's family relationships and friendships were portrayed really well - in all their loveliness and selfishness, and I also thought it was fantastic that Marian Keyes showed that friendships can fail for different reasons even when you're in your forties. I loved that Amy was still a sensual person who could still have fantastic sex with a man she fancied even though she was middle-aged and her life was certainly not over - but just beginning.
This book also tells a really amazing yet harrowing and upsetting story of what many, many Irish women had to go through for years when they wanted to have an abortion - and had to travel to the UK to get the proper medical care they deserved. It was so upsetting reading this, knowing that it hundreds of women have gone through that year after year until Ireland finally repealed the eight amendment and provided the proper medical care for its women and people who could get pregnant.
I do think this book was a little bit long for me. It could have been cut about 100 pages shorter possibly. I found myself skim reading by the end of it, as I felt the story had wrapped up.
Amy believes she is happily married to her husband of 20 years when suddenly he turns around, and tells her he wants a break - from their life and their marriage - for six months. Amy is devastated but allows Hugh to walk away from her and then realises her life doesn't have to stop either. She can also be on a break and possibly rediscover herself and what she really wants too.
I really enjoyed the majority of this book. It was very witty, and fun and I really felt for Amy throughout the novel as a mother of three just trying to keep everything together, and also not eat too much cheese, drink all the wine and spend all her money online shopping! Marian Keyes' voice came through so warmly in this story, and at times I felt like I could hear her narrate it to me. I could see so much of her own online personality in Amy and I really liked it.
I thought Amy's family relationships and friendships were portrayed really well - in all their loveliness and selfishness, and I also thought it was fantastic that Marian Keyes showed that friendships can fail for different reasons even when you're in your forties. I loved that Amy was still a sensual person who could still have fantastic sex with a man she fancied even though she was middle-aged and her life was certainly not over - but just beginning.
This book also tells a really amazing yet harrowing and upsetting story of what many, many Irish women had to go through for years when they wanted to have an abortion - and had to travel to the UK to get the proper medical care they deserved. It was so upsetting reading this, knowing that it hundreds of women have gone through that year after year until Ireland finally repealed the eight amendment and provided the proper medical care for its women and people who could get pregnant.
I do think this book was a little bit long for me. It could have been cut about 100 pages shorter possibly. I found myself skim reading by the end of it, as I felt the story had wrapped up.