Making of Us, The, Lisa Jewell
Making of Us, The, Lisa Jewell
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Making of Us, The

Author: Lisa Jewell

Narrator: Helen Duff

Unabridged: 13 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2018

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

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.

About Lisa Jewell

How often does an author begin their career by a challenge? That is exactly how British author, Lisa Jewell began her writing career. Her friend, Yasmin Boland, challenged her to write three chapters of a novel, and she would reward her with dinner at her favorite restaurant. The challenge was met, and Jewell turned those chapters into her first novel, Ralph's Party. It became the UK's bestselling first novel in 1999.

Jewell attended grammar school, but left in the sixth form, to use an art foundation scholarship at Barnet College, followed by a degree in fashion design from Epsom School of Art and Design. She worked in the fashion side of retail for several years in British Warehouse and Thomas Pink.

Lisa Jewell is considered one of the most popular authors in the UK today, with seventeen novels in her portfolio of work. She is also an internationally known and bestselling author with over two million sold in English-speaking countries alone, let alone being translated into twenty-five languages.

Among her novels are: Ralph's Party, Thirtynothing, After the Party, Then She Was Gone, The House We Grew Up In, and The Girls in the Garden. She resides in London with her husband, and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on May 20, 2020

The blurb really doesn't do this book justice. really gripping. Couldn't put it down.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 09, 2012

Let me start by saying I love Lisa Jewell. I read Ralph's Party the moment it was published in 1999, and have devoured her novels since. She's my favourite author writing in fiction in what many term the 'chick lit' genre (though the label is one I have reservations about) - the only one I regularly......more

Goodreads review by James on March 31, 2022

The Making of Us is a family drama novel published by Lisa Jewell in 2012. I've read most of the author's other books and am working my way through the early releases so that I am current this spring. The novel takes place in England and revolves around the lives of several people across many genera......more

Goodreads review by Tina on July 07, 2016

3.5* First off I must say I absolutely love Lisa Jewell's writing style. She's an author I've recently discovered. I often hear her referred to as a "ChickLit" author. I don't understand that reference. Her books are not lightweight. Her stories about families are quite complex and meaningful. Perh......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on January 26, 2013

Firstly – do not pay attention to the synopsis or the cover of this book. Both covers they have for it do not do the book justice. There is one that is a bit chic litty and the other quite contemporary. And I didn’t find the book either of these genre's – certainly not what I expected. The synopsis......more

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