<B>From the internationally bestselling author of <I>After the Party</I> comes a delightfully funny, brilliantly poignant novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew. </B><P>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. <P>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. <P>“So good that I practically inhaled it,” praised the <I>Daily Mail </I>(London). <I>The Making of Us </I>is a literary gem that will remind readers of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.