Di and Viv and Rose

Amelia Bullimore studied Drama at Manchester University, UK. She started out as an actress, began writing in 1995 and continues to do both. Her first stage play, Mammals had an extended sell-out run at the Bush Theatre in April 2005 and a successful national tour in 2006. The play had its American Preview in 2009. Mammals was co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and shortlisted for the What's On Best New Comedy Award. Her adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts was her second play and premiered at the Bush Theatre, London 2009.

It achieves what it sets out to do – show how the lives of a trio of women are shaped by their friendship over some twenty-seven years – in a manner that brims over with warm, effervescent humour and sharp, unsentimental perceptiveness . . . The long vista of the years helps Bullmore to show with moving clarity the intricate way that life and friendship inform each other and how the stock of mutual memories can contain both smarting, buried grievances and the means to dissolve them eventually in shared, helpless laughter.