Us Three: The heart-warming and uplifting Sunday Times bestseller

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The series won several awards, including two BAFTAs and four British Comedy Awards. [3] Jones and co-star Rob Brydon recorded " Islands in the Stream" (a song performed by their characters in the programme) as a single for Comic Relief in 2009; the song reached No. 1 in the chart. [8] The new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling debut, Never Greener . I found the dialogue between her characters simply a joy to read. I liked how Ruth highlighted the difference between Cardiff and Valley accents. This is something we poke fun at every week at our Llantrisant depot. They had begrudgingly agreed. Both of them were used to Lana getting her own way, but frustratingly she was usually right. I’ll get it!’ Catrin screeched, desperate to get out of the kitchen. She leapt into the hallway and grabbed the phone. ‘5-0-6-5?’ she said.

Arm wrestle!’ exclaimed Liz. ‘Dear God, is it any wonder you’ve not got a girlfriend, you go arm wrestling with young women at parties!’ Ruth Jones is best known for her outstanding and award-winning television writing, most notably BBC One's Gavin and Stacey, which she co-wrote with James Corden and in which she played the incorrigible Nessa Jenkins. The 2019 Christmas Day special of Gavin and Stacey gained national critical acclaim, drawing an audience of over 18 million, winning a BAFTA for TV moment of the year and a National Television Award for Impact. Ruth also created and co-wrote Sky One's Stella, which ran for six series. Ruth has starred in several other television comedies and dramas. A wonderfully warm, funny, totally engrossing and unputdownable novel about friendship. A gorgeous treat. Kate Eberlen, bestselling author of MISS YOU Television Female Performance In A Comedy Programme | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved 10 October 2019.

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I don’t see what the big deal is. Can’t you just go to church as and when you feel like it? You know, a bit like Aerobics?’

a b "BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Ruth Jones, actor and writer". BBC . Retrieved 20 January 2019. I loved this brilliantly gripping depiction of the complexities of female friendship over the years. Love, betrayal, comedy and loss - Us Three has it all.' FIONA NEILLAnd ultimately, Ruth hopes readers will come away from her book uplifted. ‘I’d like people who read Us Three to feel they’ve made new friends in Catrin, Judith and Lana. Essentially the novel has compassion and camaraderie at its heart with a few laughs on the way, especially with some of the secondary characters like Judith’s awful mother and the Kelly family’s comedy priest. It’s a bit of a love letter to Welsh characters and some of the wonderful people I’ve met growing up who’ve inspired my writing.’ Ruth Jones is best known for 'Gavin and Stacey' aka outstanding and award-winning television comedy writing and as such I was expecting this to be a comedy. I was wrong but also pleasantly surprised. Now you’re to keep it on you at all times, d’you hear? Even when you sleep!’ said Huw as he held out a highly unattractive khakicoloured money belt. It is if you’re loaded!’ Lana had warned, instantly dampening her friends’ enthusiasm. ‘But us three are on a budget of ten quid a day. And I’d rather wash in the sea and sleep on a beach than spend a month in a manky train full of horny stoners.’ This book grew on me, as did the 3 characters and by the end was fully invested in their life’s and all that was going on ( good, bad and indifferent )