Hilda Pressley

• Jan-1960
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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 att...

• Jan-1960
• / Contemporary Romance
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Caring for an invalid mother and keeping house for her father and a family of boys had given Lucy a sense of responsibility far above her years. Small wonder then, that during her final term of night duty in her training for a nurse took Joan under h...

• Jan-1961
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sister Beth Anderson was something of an enigma to the staff of the Royal Hospital. Attractive though she was, there was a certain coolness in her manner which froze any attempts at friendliness. Only the kindly consultant Owen Hastings knew that Bet...

• 1961
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nurse Rosemary told herself the extra training in surgery was needed for the work she and Chris had long planned to do together. Then she found that it was not the training, but Doctor Julian Halliday himself who would influence her life....

• 1962
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nurse Janette falls in love with a patient, but gratitude, she was to learn, is no substitute for true love…...

• 1962
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Staff Nurses Philippa Day and Brenda Lewis took a flat together, Brenda saw it as an opportunity to get to know the R.S.O., Hugh Rossing, better - but Hugh unfortunately only had eyes for Philippa. Then the Deputy Superintendent, Lawrence Kendal...

• Jan-1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: Night Sister in Charge. A secret tragedy had marred Sister Marthe Adamson's life a few years earlier, and now she thought only of her work. But love has a habit of intruding when unexpected, and there were unlooked -- for emotional...

• Jan-1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Everything seemed set fair for Christine. Now that she was proudly wearing her staff nurse's bonnet and badge, there was nothing to stand in the way of her marriage to medical doctor Robert Marston. But the arrival at the hospital of a glamorous pati...

• Jan-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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Another child's toy, another girl's boy, it was all the same to Elvira. Whatever Alison had, Elvira had to try and snatch it from her, even to the extent of becoming a nurse in Alison's hospital. And Alison never realized how much she minded Elvira u...

• 1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was it really love... or just a holiday romance? When Jane Barclay joined the coach tour of romantic Italy, she wanted only escape. The last thing she expected to find was love. Yet she did--and how easily and quickly! But who could blame her? Ben...

• Jan-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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It took courage for Annette to return to Ainsborough Royal Hospital. As senior staff nurse in the magnificent new theatre unit, she was well on her way to achieving her ambition of becoming theatre sister. But Ainsborough was also the scene of her sh...

• 1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jul-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sister Alys had been in love with Doctor Richard Kent for a long time -- at a distance. Then she was appointed to the post of Home Sister, which would bring them into contact -- not knowing that Doctor Kent considered that particular post a great was...

• Jan-1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Dr. Sara Martindale moved from Yorkshire to Norfolk to assist her Uncle John in his country practice, she was beset with more than her share of problems while settling down to her new life. Dr. Jim Crombie in particular had seemed to dislike her...

• 1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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If you lose your heart to Venice, a Venecian may find and keep it.......

• Jan-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Julie inherited a small cottage in the country, everybody advised her to give in to the local farmer's determination to buy it. Julie was equally determined not to sell, a decision which was to have greater repercussions than she expected....

• Jan-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Matt Windbourne's arrival as the new Head Forester set the cat among the pigeons with one strike against him. For a start, he had been appinted in place of local men, and the local men resented his appointment. To make matters worse, the medical doct...

• Sep-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Julie Felton was returning home to the Norfolk Broads. On the wave of something that she could not understand, Julie said yes to Tony's proposal. She was concerned about the health of her father, her status in the new hospital, her relationship with ...

• Jan-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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What on earth was she doing in a hospital in Italy? And why couldn't she even remember who she was? When an unknown Englishman, who had seen her car crash, offered his help, Jane had no way of knowing he was the very person she'd been running away...

• Nov-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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For sentimental reasons Julia had wanted to buy her late fiance's boatbuilding business - but Roger Leighton, who wanted it for strickly business reasons, beat her to it. She ought to resent him, but somehow she found a very different feeling develop...

• Sep-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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Freda loved her work in the world of antiques, and when Bob Arnold proposed to her she felt marriage and its ties were impossible for her. But it was significant that the same principle did not apply when she found herself thinking of Maurice Chandle...

• May-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sheila did not have a home and had never had one. She had been comfortable in some places and the opposite in others, and it had not mattered very much. She was transient, a bird of passage, but she was not quite so sure about it when she took a h...

• Sep-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sara Seymour was a career girl, a London sparrow, never happy unless she was near the bright lights. And then, under the terms of an eccentric will, she found herself obliged to live for three months in an old mill miles from anywhere, in the hear...

• Jan-1974
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Juan de Montserrat offered Marlene a job she accepted in the hope that, in an idyllic fishing village near Barcelona, she would recover from the death of her father and from her broken engagement. But falling in love with her employer was to ...