diff --git a/README.pod b/README.pod
index de7999f..ff17bfb 100644
--- a/README.pod
+++ b/README.pod
@@ -1619,6 +1619,10 @@ Ivan Kruglov
 
 Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
 
+=item *
+
+David Millar <dave@davegoesthedistance.com>
+
 =back
 
 =head1 AUTHORS
diff --git a/lib/Redis.pm b/lib/Redis.pm
index 62bcb21..8c51293 100644
--- a/lib/Redis.pm
+++ b/lib/Redis.pm
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use constant EWOULDBLOCK => eval {Errno::EWOULDBLOCK} || -1E9;
 use constant EAGAIN      => eval {Errno::EAGAIN} || -1E9;
 use constant EINTR       => eval {Errno::EINTR} || -1E9;
 use constant ECONNRESET  => eval {Errno::ECONNRESET} || -1E9;
+use constant EPIPE       => eval {Errno::EPIPE} || -1E9;
 
 # According to IO::Socket::SSL documentation, 16k is the maximum
 # size of an SSL frame and because sysread returns data from only
@@ -1038,6 +1039,9 @@ sub __try_read_sock {
       ## or because an intermediate proxy shut down our connection using its internal timeout counter
       return 0 if ($err && $err == ECONNRESET);
 
+      ## Broken pipe, we will need to reconnect
+      $self->__throw_reconnect('Broken pipe') if $err == EPIPE;
+
       ## result is undef but err is 0? should never happen
       return if $err == 0;