Margot Shepherd is a novelist. Her first novel Never Closer tells the story of the development of penicillin through the eyes of one of the laboratory assistants in Professor Florey’s research team in Oxford in the 1940s. It was Editors choice in the 2024 May edition of the Historical Novel Society quartely magazine. She is currently writing her second novel.

She 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.

Margot’s website is www.margotshepherd.com