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Book

Never closer

Call Number

  • FICTION SHEP (CEN)

Publication Information

[United States] : Umbel Press, [2023]

Physical Description

254 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary

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 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, 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?

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