Never Closer

By MARGOT SHEPHERD

Book Overview

When your life changes in a moment, how do you rewrite your story?

In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a new miracle medicine. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead how curing people may be her destiny.

In the present day, Jo, already in a failing marriage, is devastated when she hears her daughter's life is on a knife edge. At her bedside Jo starts to read Alice's diary, found the previous day in a vintage handbag.

A door opens onto the past, revealing a young woman's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. Past and present overlap and merge as life-changing events resonate across the gulf of time.

This is a story of a mother whose life is blown apart. Now she must find a way to put it back together. Can Alice show her the way?

"I devoured this book. The characters are rich and their stories compelling." - Goodreads reviewer

"This is a tale that will wring your heart and feed your soul. Don't pass it up " - I'm a Voracious Reader

"Timeless themes, beautifully packaged." - Something by Jane

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739519809
• ISBN13: 9781739519803
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Umbel
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"