
The Plot (from Goodreads):
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 of 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 is a letter containing a secret—one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.
The Review:
This was another book where I was pretty sure I’d read it before, but couldn’t remember at all what happened. Plus it was immediately available on Overdrive, so here we are!
I am a huge fan of Lisa Jewell’s more recent thrillers, but I’ll read anything she has written. The Making of Us is one of her older family dramas, which she also does very well. She is a master of painting complex, compelling characters that draw you into their stories and make the reader eager to find out more about them.
Read this if you liked:
- A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser
- Little Pieces of Me by Allison Hammer
- The Half Sister by Sandie Jones
- The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
Check out my reviews of Lisa Jewell’s other books:
Do you find yourself revisiting titles you’ve read in the past to remind yourself how they end? Or do you somehow keep a record of the endings to avoid re-reading? Talk to me in the comments!

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