Never Closer - Margot Shepherd

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Résumé :
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? I devoured this book. The characters are rich and their stories compelling. - 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 Timeless themes, beautifully packaged. - Something by Jane...

Biographie:
I have been a voracious reader of fiction ever since I was a small child. I was determined that one day I would write a novel but the opportunity to fulfil that dream didn't come until I semi-retired. I studied for an MA in Creative Writing, an amazing experience which I will never forget. I have no regrets about embarking on a writing career later in life, I loved my career in medical research and have a lifetime of experiences which I can bring to my novels. My research on improving the treatment of people with diabetes, has given me many invaluable tools: a knowledge about science which I use in my writing, the importance of attention to detail and a love of researching a subject I am writing about. When I am not writing I am gardening, walking in the Sussex countryside where I live or travelling in my motorhome in Europe. My love of gardening creeps into my novels and gardens play an important role in my latest book, The Yellow-Tail Moth. Many of the plants in my garden feature in my novels. To avoid the cold English winters, I travel to Sicily in my motorhome and in the summer visit other parts of Europe, a favourite being the Bavarian Alps. My travels provide me with more inspiration for my novels and while I'm travelling I continue to write....

Sommaire:
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. She has always been a voracious reader of literary fiction (currently, her favourite authors include Maggie O'Farrell, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Strout and Ann Patchett). Margot's other interests include her lifelong passion for gardening and travelling extensively around Europe. Sicily is a favourite destination where she can escape the cold British winters. Never Closer is her debut novel....