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Lucilla Andrews

Lucilla Andrews

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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.

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No Time for Romance
Representative edition published 2011
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No time for romance
Representative edition published 2010
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The Lights of London
Representative edition published 2000
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The Sinister Side
Representative edition published 1997
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A Weekend in the Garden
Representative edition published 1997
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The Secret Armour
Representative edition published 1997
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The Sinister Side
Representative edition published 1996
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In an Edinburgh Drawing Room
Representative edition published 1995
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The Africa Run
Representative edition published 1994
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Marsh Blood
Representative edition published 1994
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The Africa run
Representative edition published 1993
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Endel House
Representative edition published 1993
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Front Line 1940
Representative edition published 1990
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The Phoenix Syndrome
Representative edition published 1988
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The Phoenix Syndrome
Representative edition published 1987
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The Lights of London
Representative edition published 1985
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The Light In The Ward
Representative edition published 1985
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After a Famous Victory
Representative edition published 1984
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A Few Days in Endel
Representative edition published 1980
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The Crystal Gull
Representative edition published 1980
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My Friend The Professor
Representative edition published 1980
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The Young Doctors Downstairs
Representative edition published 1979
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One Night in London
Representative edition published 1979
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Busman's Holiday
Representative edition published 1979
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