An excellent review of Break of Day is available here:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/specials/colette-break.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/specials/colette-break.html
I had hoped for something like Sido's House or even vagabond...not at all..It sounds/reads to me as if she decided to sit and wait for death to take her...its written well, but...I didn't enjoy it.