Lucilla Andrews

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1954
  • Latest Book:
    August 1996
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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

2 - Marsh Blood (Apr-1980)
3 - The Sinister Side (Aug-1996)

Jason Trilogy

1 - One Night In London (Oct-1979)
2 - A Weekend In The Garden (Mar-1981)
3 - In an Edinburgh Drawing Room (May-1983)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Print Petticoat

    Although staff nurse Joanna Anthony was in love with Richard Everley, a doctor at a neighboring hospital, she was determined not to become too engrossed in any serious affairs until she was certain of her own mind. Then she met another doctor -- Alla...

  • The Secret Armour

    Young Maggie Howard is completing her general training at a London teaching hospital. It is a time when working hours are long and hospital discipline iron-strict. But Maggie loved nursing. She also loved the wrong man. But throughout her personal ...

  • The Quiet Wards

    When a dangerous drug was discovered to be missing from the drug cupboard in the care of Nurse Gillian Snow, she found that not only her career was jeopardised, but also her friendship with a house-surgeon, Peter Kier. As she fought to regain her ...

  • The First Year

    A young probationer nurse at a large teaching hospital like St. Martin's doesn't have much time for leisure - let alone romance. Attractive, young Rose Standing learned what it was like to work under an exacting Sister, to be so busy that hunger and ...

  • A Hospital Summer

    In the summer of 1940, while working as a V.A.D. in a large military hospital, Clare Dillon barely notices the attentions of young medical officer Joe Slaney - until he is suddenly snatched from her life. Amid such turmoil, is love what she really wa...

  • The Wife of the Red-Haired Man

  • My Friend the Professor

    Frances Dorland' first year does not begin promisingly, and only deteriorates after that point. Fortunately she has an engaging personality, and does at least make friends easily, settling comfortably and quickly into a pleasant social circle. But ap...

  • Nurse Errant

    When Mike Ellis became the locum doctor in place of old Doctor Grimmond, Nurse Lesley Sanders found the rhythm of her work in the quiet village strangely disturbed. Even more disturbing was Paddy Larraby, an architect who seemed to be permanently on ...

  • Flowers from the Doctor

    Nurse Kirsty Francis was a heroine. She had saved a man's life at the risk of her own, and now she was ill - dangerously ill... Kirsty had many friends on the hospital staff and they were all desperately concerned about her, but no one could under...



  • The Young Doctors Downstairs

    When taking her annual leave, Staff Nurse Shelley Dexter was rescued from drowning by a senior medical student, Jason Howard. It was not until she returned to duty that Shelley realised she was in love with Jason - despite his apparent indifference t...

  • The New Sister Theatre

    Not even her appointment as Sister General Theatre could free Margaret Lindsay from her unhappiness when Joe de Winter broke off their engagement, and it was rumored that the reason was Joe’s friendship with an attractive hospital pathologist. But ...

  • The Light in the Ward

    A novel of hospital life and a love affair crossed with misunderstanding....

  • A House for Sister Mary

    The apple blossom was in full bloom that morning, and the breeze sent pink fragments on to my apron skirt as I swung....

  • Hospital Circles

    When Jo Dungarven, third year nurse at St Benedicts, tried to act as match-maker for her aunt and Senior Surgical Officer, Red Leland, her aunt seemed interested―but then Jo found that she herself was becoming involved. And while hospital gossip ...

  • Highland Interlude

    When Nurse Elizabeth Wade was asked to take three children to Scotland, to the home of Dr. Dougal Grant, she hardy expected to stay there for any length of time. But a quarantine case forced her to remain as an unwelcome guest of the strange, reserve...

  • The Healing Time

    Returning to St. Martha's as a staff nurse after one year of marriage, five years of widowhood and with a five-year-old daughter to support would daunt any young mother. Yet Pippa Holtsmoor had to make it work. But she had not bargained for the cynic...

  • Edinburgh Excursion

    Alix Hurst, Gemmie Downs and Catriona Ferguson; three young nurses come to Edinburgh to finish their training. After many misunderstandings, all three find love....

  • Ring o'Roses

    After a year spent in Canada, Cathy Maitland returns to England to be bridesmaid at the wedding of her old school friend, Ruth. The best man having slipped a disc, Ruth's elder brother Joss is persuaded to take his place. That evening, when Cathy and...

  • Silent Song

    Nurse Anne Dorland had been a widow for four years―ever since a tragic accident on her honeymoon―but she had at last found peace and content in her new rebuilt life. She had an absorbing job as senior staff nurse in the Cardiac Unit of St Mart...



  • In Storm and in Calm

    Before taking up her eagerly anticipated promotion to Sister Victoria Ward, St Martha's Hospital, London, Staff Nurse Charlotte Anthony spends four weeks in a little hospital on the isolated, far-northern Isle of Thessa. Charlotte quickly learns that...

  • No Time for Romance

    Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young, inexperienced and coming from a comfortable and sheltered background, she found herself deal...

  • Busman's Holiday

    Discovering that the man she loved was already married was shattering blow to Staff Nurse Frances Allendale. Not being one to make a scene, she nursed her bruised heart in secret and vowed that no man would ever have the chance to let her down again:...

  • The Crystal Gull

    Serena Mathers keeps meeting Joe Verica in the middle of disasters - first an airplane crash, then a fire, then an avalanche. But is the biggest disaster his proposal of marriage?...

  • One Night In London

    Jason Trilogy - 1

    October 1944…St. Martha’s Hospital…London… And while flying bombs and rockets pulverized London, the doctors and nurses of “Wally’s” -- a ward well above ground level -- tried to keep everything functioning normally…coping with insuff...

  • Marsh Blood

    Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy - 2

    Following an illness Rose Endel decides to recuperate at the Harbour Inn in the Romney Marshes. Here she meets David Lofthouse again, but is shocked when there are two attempts on his life. Then begins a series of accidents which leave four people de...

  • A Weekend In The Garden

    Jason Trilogy - 2

    June 1951…it was a hot, hectic weekend for the staff of The Garden, the small cottage hospital in Kent, where antibiotics were regarded as the new wonderdrugs and the patients’ wireless headphones a luxury… Catherine Jason had become a theat...

  • In an Edinburgh Drawing Room

    Jason Trilogy - 3

    Britain, midwinter 1980-81. Before the New Year arrives, the lives of four young people will be transformed when they are brought into contact after a tragic train crash. Mary Hogg, is the senior staff nurse in an Intensive Therapy Unit of a small En...

  • After a Famous Victory

    A dramatic and moving story of the effect of the victory at El Alamein in 1942 - and the military and human aftermath on a Services Hospital in Southern England one year later. ...

  • The Lights of London

    Captain Charles Bradley returns to his old hospital and finds himself working once more among his old colleagues. A war-time novel centering on Londoner's experiences under assault from Hitler's V2 Rockers....



  • The Phoenix Syndrome

    It is February 1947, and England is in the grip of the most severe winter in living memory. Spirits remain high at ''the Hut'', an ex-Army encampment, until a diptheria epidemic threatens to bring chaos....

  • Front Line 1940

    A love story set in London during the Blitz. Visiting a wounded friend in St Martha's Hospital, Josh Adams, an American war correspondent meets the young staff nurse in charge, Ann Marlow, who will end his professional detachment from the war....

  • The Africa Run

    It's 1955 and three people who were wartime friends are appalled to find they are fellow travellers on a small, old passenger liner on the round-Africa run on the ten-week. Elinor MacKenzie is in tourist class, in first class is Dr. Paddy Browm, who...

  • The Sinister Side

    Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy - 3

    The year is 1969. Rose Endel has thrown herself into quiet village life in Midstreet Marsh in Kent. But when there are a number of sudden deaths, tongues start to wag. Rose is unwilling to give credence to the gossip -- until it becomes personal. Her...

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Lucilla Andrews has published 33 books.

Lucilla Andrews does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Sinister Side, was published in August 1996.

The first book by Lucilla Andrews, The Print Petticoat, was published in January 1954.

Yes. Lucilla Andrews has 2 series.
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