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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award
"[A] wrenchingly intimate depiction of a couple in the chilly, hibernal years of their marriage…[A book] with rare and unexpected beauty." —
Wall Street JournalTrade Review"Sure-handed and captivating." -- The Washington Post
"Utterly gripping.… This is a quietly brilliant novel, which makes for essential reading." -- Guardian
"[A] tender, affecting novel.… MacLaverty’s gorgeous prose is tactile and understated… and the poignancy of his story fills the reader with yearning." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An artist with a subtle feel for the ordinary, MacLaverty’s wry, outstanding novel about the tests that time, age and life impose on love resonates with humanity and emotional intelligence." -- Financial Times
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Midwinter Break] is, pretty much, a perfect piece of work. It is paced flawlessly, is lapidary of structure, and is delivered with a purpose and clarity and control that can shut out the noise of the world, of your own heartbeat, even: one of those precious books that, when at last you look up from its pages, you need a moment of re-adjustment, of decompression, so immersive is it.… It is breathtaking writing." -- Spectator
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Midwinter Break is a touching, hopeful portrait of love’s complexity, written by a master craftsman, from the fullness of his heart." -- Irish Times
"MacLaverty doesn’t publish novels very often, but when he does they are outstanding." -- Sunday Times
"An exceptionally good book, beautifully and intelligently written, well worth waiting for.… [MacLaverty] writes with an unfailing and generous sympathy.… Everything rings true." -- Scotsman
"A quietly powerful elegy that chides two finely wrought characters for not being capable of defining what they value most in life.… Exquisite." -- Publishers Weekly
"A closely observed, deeply sympathetic rendering of a relationship and the fissures that threaten to wreck it." -- Kirkus Reviews
