The Making of Us
A gripping family drama from the bestselling author
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4.1 • 15 Ratings
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- €4.49
Publisher Description
The gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs.
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Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet.
They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always felt that something is missing.
What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down.
It is a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together, and show them what love and family and friendship really mean...
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Reader's can't get enough of The Making Of Us . . .
***** 'Really gripping. Couldn't put it down.'
***** 'Truly a great read for just about everyone.'
***** 'Lisa Jewell is becoming one of my favourites. This is the third book of hers that I absolutely loved.'
***** 'I loved the characters and the way the author unravel their stories.'
***** 'I loved this book from the beginning.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In U.K. bestseller Jewell's ninth novel, readers meet Daniel, a man with a secret: as a sperm donor, he fathered four children. Now, dying from cancer at 53, he wants to find them and enlists his friend Maggie to help. The wealthy Lydia is lonely and disconnected from others; the 21-year-old Dean is a confused young father, coping with parenthood after the recent death of his girlfriend; Robin, a young woman determined to be a doctor, is enmeshed in a love affair with a writer. She knows the story of her conception and has become concerned that her boyfriend, Jack, who looks, thinks, and acts like her, could be her sibling; "It was surely so improbable as to be entirely impossible," she thinks, yet also acknowledges that it "might not in fact be pure random coincidence" that she and Jack would be drawn together. The identity of Daniel's fourth child remains a mystery that is only solved when Lydia, Dean, and Robin become determined to find their father. Jewell's moving novel immerses readers in the lives of these unique characters through the universal themes of family and a search for belonging. While the pseudo-incest thread is unnecessary, it's also quite funny. Jewell (After the Party) has written a compelling and entertaining novel.
