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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. 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. She died on 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh.
Full Series List in Order
Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy
1 - A Few Days in Endel = Endel House (Jan-1968)Book List in Order: 3 titles
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A Few Days in Endel = Endel House
- Jan-1968
- / Romantic Suspense
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A young woman returns to her father's ancestral home determined to end the feud that has split her family. While there, however, she meets a man she is certain tried to kill her in Austria ten days earlier. When Rose received an invitation from th...
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Tane Mahuta New Zealand's famous icon
- Oct-2018
- / General Fiction
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New Zealand’s famous icon Tane Mahuta is in great danger.The Kauri trees are dying in the forests of an incurable disease, and no-one knows how to help them.Meet Joshua whose alcoholic father beats him up. He is taken into foster care and is se...
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The Invitation
- Aug-2022
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This story is based on a real story in the Bible. You can read it in: Luke 14: 15-24 and Matthew 22: 2-14. It means that God does not need you to be special, talented, beautiful, rich, healthy, successful or have tons of friends who adore you. God...