"A closely observed, deeply sympathetic rendering of a relationship and the fissures that threaten to wreck it."—Kirkus Starred Review

“Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms—to an honest reckoning—with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be placed against the possibility of a rich spiritual life, this is a novel of high ambition by an artist at the height of his powers.” —Colm Toibin

“MacLaverty’s prose is deceptively simple and rewardingly straight-forward and efficient. But what he writes about in this much anticipated novel—the resilience and stress-lines of human love experienced over much time—is anything but simple and straight-forward. It’s the stuff of life.” —Richard Ford

“Rich and precisely written…In this finely detailed rendering of a couple’s virtues and foibles, there are numerous outstanding, jewel-like scenes…[T]his is a satisfying, thoroughly enjoyable, and even at times tongue-clucking read.” —Booklist

“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 Starred Review

Bernard MacLaverty is the author of eight books, including Grace Notes, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.