The Making of Us: A Novel
Written by Lisa Jewell
Narrated by Helen Duff
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About this audiobook
Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don't know one another...yet. Each is facing difficult challenges: Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is eighteen. Gorgeous, popular, and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident about her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she's failing her classes. Now she's falling in love for the first time.
Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It's a letter containing a secret—one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.
A literary gem, The Making of Us will remind listeners of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.
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Reviews for The Making of Us
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An enjoyable read and story. I do like this author.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This audiobook was a compelling and heartbreaking novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew. An easy, entertaining, fast read. Great characters and good plotting make for a very interesting story. I found Lisa Jewell to be a masterful writer who seems to get better with each book. I'm looking forward to reading The Girls in the Garden real soon. Recommended to those who like chic-lit novels.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely love love love this book...everyone should read this ... couldn't put it down!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an amazing story - so enjoyed the audible journey!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Defiantly had a lot of twists and turns that kept me listening. overall a decent book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The narrator is amazing. Lisa Jewel writes a seamless story interweaving the plot and developing the characters. It’s a wonderful uplifting story of finding your family and yourself and knowing that people are good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“They were not identical, but they were alike. They were like her.”In The Making Of Us, Jewell weaves together strangers united by common genes; children of the same sperm donor. Lydia has finally escaped from a cold and hated life on a Welsh estate. Dean is heartbroken when his girlfriend doesn’t survive the birth of their child. Robyn is set for a career as a doctor. Slowly they discover the truth about their parentage, but will it be soon enough for them to meet their father, who lies dying in a hospice?Jewell does well to make three such disparate characters warm and likeable. Lydia is cold and has rejected the world, but we want her to find a man and learn to accept her best friend’s marriage and child. Dean is weak and broken by grief, but we know he can do better. Robyn seems to lead a charmed life. In a sense, this novel is a character study in pieces, united by the plot of the children finding each other and their father; it is the everyday stories of the children which are riveting, not their search for paternity.I was underwhelmed by the Daniel storyline; Maggie and Daniel both seemed quite dull and unlike other “dying books” (The Love Verb, Before I Die), I did not get much of a sense of the disease, of the grief of onlookers, of the misery of those last few days/months.I don’t seem to have praised this novel very highly – I did stay up quite late finishing it, which is always worth an extra point out of ten; it’s not a deep or meaningful novel, but perfectly entertaining.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lydia, Dean, and Robyn are all young singles whose lives come together when they learn that they all share the same father and visit him on his deathbed. There was actually a fourth sibling but he passed away early on. The three surviving siblings were conceived by different mothers who all went to a sperm bank and used the same donor sperm.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lydia, Dean and Robyn are all brought together by one common thread, a sperm donor. They come from very different backgrounds but become close and create their version of a new family. This was a nice, beach type read. Light, fun and moved along nicely.