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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Lisa Jewell
Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Century
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jewell, Lisa.
The making of us : a novel / by Lisa Jewell.
p. cm.
1. Sperm banks—Fiction. 2. Artificial insemination, Human—Fiction. 3. Life change events—Fiction. 4. Family secrets—Fiction. 5. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PR6060.E95M35 2012
823'.914—dc23
2012009042
ISBN 978-1-4516-0911-0
ISBN 978-1-4516-0913-4 (ebook)