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