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The Fair Wind
London, 1957. When Junior Nurse Sue Fraser is asked to play matchmaker for her friend and a doctor, can she hide her own feelings for the young medic? "Arguably the best of all writers of hospital fiction." Nursing Times Sue has a reputation in the hospital for being clumsy. After her latest accident, student doctor Tom Dillon saves the day. Sue is keen on Tom, but thinks he is more interested in her pretty friend, Jill. Dr Mark Jonathan agrees. He asks Sue on a date, and suggests they bring an unsuspecting Tom and Jill together. But have the young nurse and doctor got their wires crossed? Meanwhile, can Sue convince Sister that she has the qualities to become a good nurse? And will a brave act of kindness lead to serious trouble for Sue? Another touching medical romance about a 1950s hospital nurse. The Fair Wind is the sixth ebook in the new "Anniversary Collection" of novels by Lucilla Andrews to be published between 2020 and 2021. These best-loved stories by Lucilla, which first appeared many years ago as serials, are released to celebrate two important anniversaries. 2020 marks 60 years since Lucilla became a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and 2021 is the 15th anniversary of her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 28, 2021
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Lucilla Andrews
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Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
aka
Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
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January 4, 2022
Sweet Little Romance
Written in 1957 this was a very sweet love story about two couples working together in the same hospital totally confused as to who loved whom. They didn't work too hard to get it solved accepting hospital gossip as truth. Andrews' character of Thomas was so totally wonderful. A man that would make my heart beat faster. He's a young student trying to qualify for his MD, and Mark and Jill's getting together is like sugar. I liked it a lot despite it's being too short and sweet.
Written in 1957 this was a very sweet love story about two couples working together in the same hospital totally confused as to who loved whom. They didn't work too hard to get it solved accepting hospital gossip as truth. Andrews' character of Thomas was so totally wonderful. A man that would make my heart beat faster. He's a young student trying to qualify for his MD, and Mark and Jill's getting together is like sugar. I liked it a lot despite it's being too short and sweet.
December 1, 2021
Another pleasant light if somewhat formulaic hospital romance from this expert author. Sue, an accident prone probationer, encounters first Thomas and then his flatmate, Mark - and there’s the usual misunderstandings involving herself and her friend, Jill and who loves who before the tale reaches its inevitable conclusion. (The section in which Sue is unwell in Nightingale ward reminds me of at least one of her other romances - just can’t recall which!)
April 14, 2024
Delightful!
Probably my favourite one from this author that I’ve read so far. This is 5 stars for enjoyability for this genre of vintage romance- yes it is not the best character development work or the best plot, but if you’re looking for something relaxing and gentle and sweet, Tom and Sue and their friends Jill and Mark were delightful to spend an afternoon in with. I really enjoyed this gentle, calming book.
Probably my favourite one from this author that I’ve read so far. This is 5 stars for enjoyability for this genre of vintage romance- yes it is not the best character development work or the best plot, but if you’re looking for something relaxing and gentle and sweet, Tom and Sue and their friends Jill and Mark were delightful to spend an afternoon in with. I really enjoyed this gentle, calming book.
June 28, 2022
Sweet, easy romance with easily-resolved love quadrangle, which the heroine doesn't figure out until the very end because of a convenient (not too much attention is paid to the medical details of that, however, so I don't think it should be upsetting to most people).
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