Three

 By: Valerie Perrin  

Location: FIC PER

Genre: Mystery

From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are.

1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part.

2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends, who were unusually close when younger but now no longer speak. . As Virginie moves closer to the surprising truth, relationships fray and others are formed.

Valérie Perrin has an unerring gift for delving into life. In Three, she brings readers along with her through a sequence of heart-wrenching events and revelations that span three decades. Three tells a moving story of love and loss, hope and grief, friendship and adversity, and of time as an ineluctable agent of change.

Review by Penk- Goodreads

‘Thank goodness that life, occasionally, perseveres.’

This book was a wild ride and I quite enjoyed the time spent in Perrin’s words along with her characters. Three will certainly keep you turning pages and will bring back nostalgia for the loved ones of your youth. I found it easy to care for these characters despite their flaws, even when they were such shits, because the dynamics worked so well. There is a wonderful attention to music, with a big playlist of all the characters favorite songs popping up through the pages, and it captures how song lyrics can be so meaningful to us in times of need. A big book with a big heart, Three is a fun read.