Synopsis
Wife. Husband. Best friend.
What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?
A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. You couldn’t ask for more. There’s just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other.
Over a single day, wife, husband and best friend Temi toe the lines of compromise and betrayal. Slowly, their lives begin to unravel, until a startling discovery throws everyone’s integrity into question…
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781529921724
- Number of pages: 208
- Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
- Weight: 151g
- Languages: English
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Original, smart debut
I loved this clever, well written story told from three perspectives and set over an afternoon. It presents three flawed characters and their relationships... READ MORE
Slow burn but gripping storyline
The premise of this book is really simple: the protagonist and her husband have a comfortable life in London - a beautiful house, dates at expensive restau... READ MORE
Clever book
This story unfolds over the course of a day and the writer manages that with such cleverness. It is smart and funny. Eager to see what this writer does nex... READ MORE
Original format - would make a good book club read
An original format for this tale. Told from the perspective of the wife (unnamed), Temi (the wife's best friend) and the husband ('Kim'?) in a one-day time... READ MORE
brilliant book!
I devoured this brilliant book in one sitting. Written over a day from three perspectives, it details a very toxic relationship, in which each person think... READ MORE
Great Characters!
Thank you to the publishers for this review copy. As the title suggests there are three main characters, the husband, the wife, the wife's friend.
The book... READ MORE
highly recommended
A brilliant and clever story, witty and well told. There's a mix of genre and there're three different POVs that tells a story that kept me hooked.
The aut... READ MORE
Clever, sharp & unique - a stunning debut!
Fans of Naoise Dolan and Caleb Azumah Nelson will LOVE this consuming, clever and witty debut! Unreliable and secretive characters that you love to hate, s... READ MORE
good
I found the three points of view to be quite repetitive and with an abrupt ending as if the author left it there and decided to never finish it properly. M... READ MORE
Short story on relationships
“The Three of Us” is essentially the story of 3 people and their intertwined relationships: husband, wife and wife’s best friend. It’s set across one after... READ MORE
A clever, slyly humorous debut
Set over a single day, The Three of Us is told from three points of view: a wife, a husband and the best friend who has known the wife since school..
The ... READ MORE
I expected to live with one woman when I got married. Apparently I live with two
The premise of this book seems straightforward, although I now believe it is anything but. We have a love triangle marriage, with three people in it, the h... READ MORE
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