Never Closer

By: Margot Shepherd

Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower

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?

©2023 Margot Shepherd (P)2025 Margot Shepherd

Slow plot, rather boring

I felt like I was just listening in on someone’s daily life - no adventure, no excitement, no ups and downs. I didn’t finish the book after I got 75% of the way through