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Ring O'roses
Returning to England after a year abroad, Nurse Cathy Maitland attends the wedding of her old school friend Ruth. When she meets Ruth's brother Joss again, they find that their feelings for each other have completely changed, former indifference has now become mutual attraction.
- GenresRomance
184 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1972
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Lucilla Andrews
85 books9 followersLucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton
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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 24, 2020Bad.
May 1, 2020
As usual, the medical details and characterizations are great, and this one is definitely a romance, but basically the only thing keeping Joss and Cathy apart is that neither of them talks to the other - both of them immediately assume the worst. It's more than a little absurd. Like, these idiots deserve to be unhappy.
December 31, 2023
Cathy returns from Canada for her best friend’s wedding and to work on a ward at Martha’s, the author’s fictional hospital that features in many of her books. A romantic moment with her friend’s older brother, the boy next door she grew up with, and a flu epidemic in the hospital means Cathy and Joss end up working in the Accident Unit together - but romantic misunderstandings keep them apart until the inevitable conclusion (this is a hospital romance after all). There’s plenty of accident details and hospital procedures but too many walk-on characters’ names for me to distinguish them all!
October 19, 2022
Lots of Kisses, No Sex
Review on reading 2nd time:
OK, this was better 2nd time I read it. Right after his first kissing session with Cathy, When they start to work at Martha's the following Monday, Joss is cold and ignores her. It's only towards the end of their time in the Accident/Emergency Ward that the truth comes out. A lot of talk about their cases, a lot of talk about the hospital and very little about their love story. Joss grows on one. He had a good excuse but why not talk to one another. He grew up with her so he should have known her better.
Review after reading the first time:
Times have changed for Lucilla Andrews. When she started writing her romances were full of hospital lore and no kisses until the last paragraph. Now there are much more kisses but never any sex. How this can be is weird to say the least. Her hospitals cannot fill the gap. So only 2 stars for this one.
Review on reading 2nd time:
OK, this was better 2nd time I read it. Right after his first kissing session with Cathy, When they start to work at Martha's the following Monday, Joss is cold and ignores her. It's only towards the end of their time in the Accident/Emergency Ward that the truth comes out. A lot of talk about their cases, a lot of talk about the hospital and very little about their love story. Joss grows on one. He had a good excuse but why not talk to one another. He grew up with her so he should have known her better.
Review after reading the first time:
Times have changed for Lucilla Andrews. When she started writing her romances were full of hospital lore and no kisses until the last paragraph. Now there are much more kisses but never any sex. How this can be is weird to say the least. Her hospitals cannot fill the gap. So only 2 stars for this one.
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