Description

When seemingly happily married couple Tess and Curtis announce that they're calling time on their 20-year relationship, Bonnie and Annie are devastated. Who will they have cosy foursome dinners with? What will happen to their carefully planned couples trip to Bhutan? And what will become of all their shared history?

Joanna Murray-Smith's Three Little Words will have anyone who feels settled in matters of the heart shaking in their boots. The power of social connection and the interdependence of friends are thrust under her highly polished microscope revealing that, when it comes to love, things can shatter at any moment.

'Joanna Murray-Smith demonstrates a Stoppardian gift for pithily combining intelligence, wit and pathos' The Independent

Biography

Joanna Murray-Smith

JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH’s plays have been produced throughout Australia and all over the world, including Honour, which had a public reading with Meryl Streep and was produced on Broadway in 1998, the National Theatre, London, in 2003, and on the West End with Dame Diana Rigg in 2005. Other plays include Fury; Songs for Nobodies; Switzerland; Pennsylvania Avenue; True Minds; Day One A Hotel, Evening; Rockabye; Ninety; Bombshells; Rapture; Nightfall; Redemption; Love Child; Atlanta; Flame and acclaimed adaptations of Hedda Gabler and Scenes From A Marriage, many of which have been translated into other languages. She has been nominated for and won many awards. Her novels include Truce and Judgement Rock, both published by Penguin Australia, and Sunnyside, published by Penguin Australia and Viking in the UK.