Lisa Jewell | The Making of Us

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The Book: 

The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell, 2011

The Characters: 

Lydia
Dean 
Robyn


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.

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Book spoilers ahead–if you haven’t yet read The Making of Us, I suggest you turn back now.

The Ending:

Lydia met her Uncle Rod, and he was able to tell her what happened to her mother. Her dad got angry thinking that Glenys had cheated on him with Rod, and as they fought Glenys fell off the balcony and died. Lydia’s baby brother had died from SIDS. 

The children all met each other, and then met their dying father right before he passed away. Meeting each other inspired them all to be better people by giving them a place in the world.

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. 

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