First Year Love — Clare Lavenham

Impulsive, eager to do well, but somehow frequently running into trouble, this is Kate Wilding when she starts her nursing career at Northleigh Hospital. One of her gaffes is to welcome the lofty consultant surgeon with shrieks of joy, for is he not a long-standing friend of her brother's?

As she settles down, she still sees more of Nick Master than so junior a nurse might expect. But could their comradely relationship ever become serious? It just might be that, dazzled as she is by his charm, the deeper instincts of her heart are leading her in quite another direction...