{"product_id":"never-closer-1","title":"Never Closer By Shepherd, Margot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen your life changes in a moment, how do you rewrite your story?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I devoured this book. The characters are rich and their stories compelling.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003e- Goodreads reviewer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is a tale that will wring your heart and feed your soul. Don''t pass it up!\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e - I''m a Voracious Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Timeless themes, beautifully packaged.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e- \u003cem\u003eSomething by Jane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57845090255230,"sku":"NW9781739519803","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/never-closer-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}