Tender Nurse

by Hilda Nickson

Few women could resist the handsome good looks and polished charm of Martin Graham, the brilliant surgeon. But Nurse Andrea Grey was one of the few; she had only dislike for this man who seemed to take pleasure in humiliating her. How different he was, she thought, from Godfrey who, lacking Martin's brilliance, was ever kindly, warm-hearted and considerate.

But as the days went by and Andrea had increasing opportunities of watching Martin's untiring hands at work, she was forced to admit her first judgment had been hasty. For all his faults he was a man of character, never sparing himself any more than he spared those who worked with him.

And Martin, too, was forced to think again. Accustomed to feminine adulation, he found himself increasingly drawn towards this cool, independent girl who never seemed to give him a second glance.

In the circumstances, it was inevitable they should fall in love...

Genres: Harlequin Romance

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. She married with the Western novelist Maltby, England Arthur Nickson (a.k.a. Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan).

She used to sign her novels her married name, Hilda Nickson, her birth name, Hilda Pressley, and the pseudonym Hilary Preston. She published her first novels at Herbert Jenkins at 1950s, before start to work to Mills & Boon, most of her novels were reedited by Harlequin, in some cases by diferents titles. She focused her first novels on the popular Doctor-Nurse romances, and are frecuently found love triangles in her plots, and she also set her novels in exotic places like Italy or Spain.

Hilda Pressley Nickson served as Vice-President for the Romantic Novelists' Association. She passed away in 1977.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

The doctor hero's idea of protecting the nurse heroine is to berate her unfairly at work and date the jealous OW instead. What an Alpha!

But don't feel too sorry for her. Under her infuriating, phony Mary Sue demeanor, she strings along a nice OM unforgivably then accepts his proposal out of pity when he gets paralyzed in a car accident.

The only ray of sun in this bleak landscape is that the OM finally dumps the heroine for her best friend and then, in one of the most unintentionally comical scenes in soap opera history, miraculously regains feelings in his legs as soon as he does the dumpage :D

[Aarathi Burki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a sweet little story I really liked the leads Andrea and Martin who fall in love with each other pretty soon in the book but take time to confess and few circumstances co.e up which keep them apart but finally they unite. I liked the author's writing which had a good flow with not much of dragging. I also liked the secondary characters who were friendly and concerned. All in all a very good doctor nurse romance.

[Melinda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't find the characters compelling.