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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 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

Duration: about 8 hours (08:26:55)
Publishing date: 2025-06-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction