Never Closer by Margot Shepherd Paperback Book 9781739519803

When your life changes in a moment how do you rewrite your storyIn 1940s Britainampnbspwith 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 destinyIn the present dayampnbspJo already in a failing marriage is devastated when she hears her daughters life is on a knife edge At her bedside Jo starts to read Alices diary found the previous day in a vintage handbagA door opens onto the past revealing a young womans fierce determination to succeed against all odds Past and present overlap and merge as lifechanging events resonate across the gulf of timeThis 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 wayquotI devoured this book The characters are rich and their stories compellingquot Goodreads reviewerquotThis is a tale that will wring your heart and feed your soul Dont pass it upquot Im a Voracious ReaderquotTimeless themes beautifully packagedquot Something by Jane