The Making of Us.

Lydia, Dean and Robyn are half siblings with vastly different backgrounds but they have one thing in common - their Father. They have never met each other and none of them have met their Father. They are children of a sperm donor. 

When they do eventually meet up they find that they have much in common and bond strongly despite their superficial differences. Meanwhile, their donation Father lies dying in a hospice outside London. His dearest wish to is to meet the children he has created...
The story then leaps forward  (or should I say backwards) to Lydia's unhappy adolescence and then onward to the present day where we meet Dean and Robyn along with Maggie, the donor's girlfriend, who sets out to trace the children through a Donor Registry.

I can't help but feel that I jinxed myself saying how much I enjoyed the novels of Lisa Jewell when I read The Third Wife recently as I wasn't all that fond of this one. 

I thought that the story started off in a very promising way when we meet oldest child Lydia's Mother just as she starts to explore the possibility of pursuing a donor pregnancy and it dealt well with the sensitive issue of donor identity which I found to be thought provoking.

It isn't a bad book -  indeed the beginning and ending of it are very good indeed -  but I  failed to become absorbed in the story. Although the writing style was excellent the middle part of the book dragged for me. Usually I love the characters in Lisa Jewell's books but with the exception of Lydia, I didn't feel that the characters were fleshed out enough to connect with them. (I found Robyn and her storyline to be especially irritating.)

Overall it's not terrible, but for me it was something of a let down as I usually enjoy this author's books so much...