THE MAKING OF US

Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B40881

English Summary/英文概要： Lydia, Robyn, and Dean don’t know each other. Yet. They are all facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Her best friend has just had a baby and the closest thing she has to a physical relationship is with her personal fitness trainer – who is probably gay. A surprise visit from her long-lost uncle reveals a shocking truth about her childhood.
Dean is a young man whose life is going nowhere. He is jobless and about to have a baby with a girl who hates him. But then one afternoon, life flips over and leaves him somewhere he never expected to be: a single dad to a premature baby. At first he retreats from the responsibility that has been forced upon him, but then his mother tells him something extraordinary about his dad and he is forced to re-evaluate his whole life.
Robyn is 19. She’s training to be a doctor and is determined one day to be a paediatrician, just like her dad. She has never met her dad. Neither has her mother. He was an anonymous donor, and that’s exactly what she wants him to stay. The man who brought her up is the only dad she wants. Her donor dad is just a character in her own personal fairy tale. Until the day she meets the man of dreams and falls in love. He looks like her, he thinks like her, he even has the same freckle in the same place on his left hand. It could be just a coincidence, but she needs to be sure before she can allow herself to be with him.
Meanwhile in a hospice, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she moistens his mouth and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. He tells her about the children he has never met and never will, conceived with women he has never slept with, never even touched. Four of them, apparently, two boys, two girls.
As his children slowly find their way into each other’s lives, will Daniel have a chance to meet his legacy and to say goodbye to his children before his time is up?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 莉迪亚（Lydia）、罗宾（Robyn）、狄恩（Dean）互不相识，却都面临着各自的艰难挑战。尽管莉迪亚生活富裕，可是童年的创伤连同伤疤一起缠着她，她的生活孤单而杂乱。她最好的朋友已经生儿育女，而她呢，跟她最亲密的私人教练很有可能是同性恋。而她失踪多年的叔叔的到来揭开了有关她童年的惊人内幕。

狄恩年轻无所事事，他很快就要当爸爸，可是他孩子的母亲恨他。然而，某个下午，生活突然变得非常不一样，他成了单亲爸爸。起先他努力想要逃避自己的责任，可是孩子的母亲告诉了他一些他父亲的往事使得他不得不重新衡量自己的一生。

罗宾现在19岁，她将来想要像她爸爸一样当儿科医生。她从未见过自己的父母。她的生父只是一位匿名捐赠者，是她个人童话里的插曲。她承认的父亲是将她养育成人的人。直到有一天，她遇到了那个梦中人并且迅速堕入爱河。他和她无论外在想法非常相像。她很痛苦，她必须要弄清楚这是不是巧合。

与此同时医院有一个叫丹尼尔的人神智逐渐模糊。他的朋友麦琪天天跟他坐在一起，握着他手，给他润唇，听他讲过去的故事，他的秘密，他的懊悔。他跟她讲他从未谋面的孩子们，讲他从未跟孩子的母亲同房，讲他有二儿二女。

慢慢慢慢孩子们最终团圆了，可是丹尼尔有机会在死前见上他们一面吗？(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 【關於作者】 http://www.lisa-jewell.co.uk/
http://www.lisa-jewell.co.uk/diary.html
Lisa Jewell was born and raised in north London, where she lives with her husband. She used to be a secretary until redundancy, a bet, and a book deal took her away from all that and she is now a full-time writer. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the bestselling debut of 1999. She is also the author of Thirtynothing, One-Hit Wonder, Vince & Joy and A Friend of the Family. Her latest novel is 31 Dream Street.Lisa Jewell now lives in Swiss Cottage with her husband and daughter.
http://www.lisa-jewell.co.uk/
http://www.lisa-jewell.co.uk/diary.html

莉莎．珠兒（Lisa Jewell）在倫敦北部的托特里積（Totteridge）小城裡長大，現在仍跟丈夫還有心愛的貓住在那裡。
她曾進入柏內學院（Barnet College）學習藝術，接下來又轉到Epsom School of Art and Design學習流行設計，一畢業便踏入競爭激烈的流行時裝界。之後莉莎終於重新拾回自己的最愛跟天賦──寫作。
莉莎現在是位世界知名小說作家，陸續出版了六本暢銷小說如《Ralph’s Party》、《不過就是30歲》等。

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：I thought that you’d like to know that Lisa’s worldwide sales have now reached 4.5 million.

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