Lana, Judith and Catrin meet in primary school and vow to be friends forever. Covering a span of more than 30 years we see how the friendship develops as life throws everything it can at the three women.
A year ago I read Ruth Jones' novel Love Untold. While reading it I kept imagining that every female character that spoke did so in Nessa's voice. Deciding on my next audiobook I discovered that Ruth narrates Us Three herself. I wasn't disappointed, the accent is so soothing, you immediately become immersed in the world of Lana, Judith and Catrin.
Although the three girls have been inseparable friends since the age of five, we actually join them at eighteen. A-Levels are finished and they are setting out on their first big adventure together, traveling the Greek islands. The build-up and holiday itself give us a great insight into the individual characters. The holiday isn't without the usual antics you would expect from a group of young women away from the shackles of home and parents, it also lays the foundation for significant events which happen later in the story.
Over time we see the women fall in love, embark on careers, deal with aging parents and have families of their own. Not everything is plain sailing, and we get to see the true nature of one or two unsavory characters. The friendships are also strained by some of the events, listening you just want to bang a few heads together and tell them to stop being so pig-headed.
We see the full gamut of emotions; joy, grief, love, anger and heartbreak to name a few. A couple of the scenes really will have you reaching for a tissue. Through it all you just know that the friendship is going to turn full circle and return to what it was at the beginning, as all uplifting novels should, this is neatly tied up by an epilogue which is a flashback to the girls at the age of five.
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