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Never Closer

EDITORS' CHOICE: HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY "A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES."

England. Present Day. Jo is coming to terms with her empty nest when she is devastated by news that every mother dreads.

In 1940, as war is claiming many lives, Alice enters a laboratory to harvest a new drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about microbes and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

The lives of the two women become entwined when Jo finds Alice's diary in a vintage handbag. Past and present overlap and merge as life-changing events resonate across the gulf of time.

This is a story about a diary opening a door on the past, chronicling Alice's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It's a story about how Jo emerges from darkness into light and discovers a strength she never knew she had.

Can Alice's diary help Jo step into a better life?

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Never Closer

EDITORS' CHOICE: HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY "A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES."

England. Present Day. Jo is coming to terms with her empty nest when she is devastated by news that every mother dreads.

In 1940, as war is claiming many lives, Alice enters a laboratory to harvest a new drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about microbes and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

The lives of the two women become entwined when Jo finds Alice's diary in a vintage handbag. Past and present overlap and merge as life-changing events resonate across the gulf of time.

This is a story about a diary opening a door on the past, chronicling Alice's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It's a story about how Jo emerges from darkness into light and discovers a strength she never knew she had.

Can Alice's diary help Jo step into a better life?

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Never Closer

Never Closer

by Margot Shepherd
Never Closer

Never Closer

by Margot Shepherd

Overview

EDITORS' CHOICE: HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY "A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES."

England. Present Day. Jo is coming to terms with her empty nest when she is devastated by news that every mother dreads.

In 1940, as war is claiming many lives, Alice enters a laboratory to harvest a new drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about microbes and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

The lives of the two women become entwined when Jo finds Alice's diary in a vintage handbag. Past and present overlap and merge as life-changing events resonate across the gulf of time.

This is a story about a diary opening a door on the past, chronicling Alice's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It's a story about how Jo emerges from darkness into light and discovers a strength she never knew she had.

Can Alice's diary help Jo step into a better life?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781739519803
Publisher: Umbel
Publication date: 12/04/2023
Pages: 260
Sales rank: 629,805
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Margot Shepherd is a British author who was born in Yorkshire where she spent her childhood. She now lives in rural Sussex with her husband and Springer Spaniel, Genni. When she's not writing she works in medical research at the University of Surrey. She writes about family relationships with a particular emphasis on women and science from a female point of view.Margot has an MA in Creative Writing & Publishing from West Dean College in Sussex for which she received a distinction and the Vice Chancellors prize.Never Closer is her debut novel.
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