Never Closer
Perfect for readers who enjoy Elizabeth Strout's novels about family life, Marie Benedict's novels about women hidden from history or Julia Kelly's dual timeline stories. Beautifully written, Never Closer is a moving account of women finding the courage to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a potential wonder drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about medicines and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

In the present day, Jo is devastated when she hears her daughter is critically ill with meningitis. At her daughter's bedside she starts to read Alice's diary, found the previous day 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 a young woman's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It is a story of a mother whose life is blown apart and must find a way to put it back together.

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

"I found myself hooked and I couldn't let it go." – 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
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Never Closer
Perfect for readers who enjoy Elizabeth Strout's novels about family life, Marie Benedict's novels about women hidden from history or Julia Kelly's dual timeline stories. Beautifully written, Never Closer is a moving account of women finding the courage to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a potential wonder drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about medicines and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

In the present day, Jo is devastated when she hears her daughter is critically ill with meningitis. At her daughter's bedside she starts to read Alice's diary, found the previous day 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 a young woman's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It is a story of a mother whose life is blown apart and must find a way to put it back together.

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

"I found myself hooked and I couldn't let it go." – 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
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Never Closer

Never Closer

by Margot Shepherd
Never Closer

Never Closer

by Margot Shepherd

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Perfect for readers who enjoy Elizabeth Strout's novels about family life, Marie Benedict's novels about women hidden from history or Julia Kelly's dual timeline stories. Beautifully written, Never Closer is a moving account of women finding the courage to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a potential wonder drug, called penicillin. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be a teacher, she learns instead about medicines and miracles and how curing people may be her destiny.

In the present day, Jo is devastated when she hears her daughter is critically ill with meningitis. At her daughter's bedside she starts to read Alice's diary, found the previous day 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 a young woman's fierce determination to succeed against all odds. It is a story of a mother whose life is blown apart and must find a way to put it back together.

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

"I found myself hooked and I couldn't let it go." – 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

Product Details

BN ID: 2940185618882
Publisher: Umbel
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 70,314
File size: 655 KB

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.
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