And when you find out just how very wrong you are, your mind bends and flexes under the challenge this story presents, and you realise just how much you usually rely on pre-conceived notions when forming opinions. It’s just that you start out reading this novel and then very early on, you get the first surprise, and your mind builds up this picture and you begin to feel smug, because you know where this is going, except you’re wrong. And I don’t mean this in the usual spoiler way. Because that will ruin the surprise and this is definitely a case of the less you know the better. The Three of Us might just be one of the most surprising novels I’ve ever read. In Kim Lock’s third novel of what really goes on behind closed doors, she weaves the tale of three people with one big secret a story of fifty years of friendship, betrayal, loss and laughter in a heartwarming depiction of love against the odds. And when one day Elsie spies a face in the window of the silent house next door, nothing will ever be ordinary again… Until the arrival of newlyweds Thomas and Elsie Mullet. Years of sprinklers stuttering over clipped lawns, children playing behind low brick walls. The neat houses perched under the big gum trees on Church Street have been home to many over the years. In the small town of Gawler, South Australia, the tang of cut grass and eucalyptus mingles on the warm air. A love that should never have been hidden.
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