Theatre Sister

by Hilda Pressley

Catherine Manton was angry and hurt. She was also beautiful and efficient and her operating theatre was perfectly run. Why then, did the new RSO declare that he couldn't work with her -- even if it meant he had to leave. Why did Peter Wingat, the attractive new surgeon, take an instant dislike to his theatre sister, Catherine Manton? Obviously he had no time for glamour in the operating theatre, but Sister Manton was too efficient for her looks to be the sole reason. After attending some lectures at the surgeon's old hospital, she discovered some clues to his mysterious antagonism, but this discovery seemed to make matters worse -- not better. And the consolation she found in the arms of her colleague, Raymond White, served only to inflame Peter Wingat further.

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Hqn

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

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]

Vomit-inducing, somewhat scary, unintentionally comical hospital soap opera train wreck buried under a typhoon of tackiness.

Doctor takes one look at Theatre Sister's blonde bombshell good looks and sentences her to a lifetime of tart insults. She looks exactly like his ex-fiancee, who was apparently so sexy and distracting that she caused him to fumble a surgery and the patient died. Now the hero surgeon has to start all over again at a new hospital and put his trauma behind him...only to find that his new theater sister is JUST AS SEXY AND DISTRACTING AS HIS EX: oooohhhhh nooooooeeeeessss!



Hero is relentless in his savage attacks, verbal insults, freezing snubs, and just despicable behavior towards his new nurse. At one point, he kisses her punishingly before shouting at her that he hates her. In another instance, while in the throes of another psychotic episode, he shakes her violently and tells her he is going to kill her.

At this point, I was wondering who exactly issued him a medical licence? This guy needs to be placed in a psychiatric hold prompto. I shudder to think what delusions he harbors towards his hapless patients while wielding a knife :~{



Our heroine is naturally instantly IN LOVE with this fine male specimen of mental and physical health. Though that doesn't stop her from dating two other colleagues. As retaliation, the psycho gets himself engaged to a rookie nurse who is new to the hospital. Seriously, when do these people ever find the time for nursing and doctoring? The patients here must be dropping like flies!



Not to worry though, all the GREAT BIG TERRIBLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS have cleared up by the last chapter. Hero finally realized that all blondes aren't the same and he makes a cringeworthy public apology to her. But that's not all! Heroine has no reason to be jealous of his fiancee at all...because she is not REALLY his fiancee, she is his...SISTER.

YUP. He was SO scared of being distracted by the heroine,he convinced his sister to become his fake fiancee. It's TOTALLY not weird and a lovely way to conclude this epic train wreck :D

[Leona · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was just SO not into him! I like my heroes tortured, and strong. He was just one weak-willed dude that expected the entire world to revolve around him.. (But then again, most men do...LOL)

I also could not believe she loved him. I really wanted him to take that wonderful surgical assignment in London and just go leaving her to do a Happy Dance at his departure.



Instead I got an "I love you" out of the blue that had me scratching my head.

[Margo · Rating 1 out of 5]

The H spends far too much of his time convincing the h that he is engaged to his sister. The ick factor is OFF THE CHARTS. If he's not doing that, he's being a colossal jerk.

[Melinda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a plot that I don't care for. The doctor, our hero, has known someone in his past that resembles the heroine. As a result he is a butthole for most of the book. That made his sudden reversal at the end more unbelievable.