Book description
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 dealing with survivors from
Dunkirk and the victims of the blitz. Seeing these horrors at first
hand had a profound and lasting effect upon her, and made her
determined to train as a Nurse at St Thomas's Hospital.
No Time For Romance is her story, the powerful and moving
account of a young girl in wartime London, learning the hard way about
medicine, injuries and death, as well as love and hope. It is a story
both of personal courage and of the courage of the British people at war.
Lucilla Andrews was born in Suez, the daughter of an English
father and a Spanish mother. She went to school in England and wrote
her first (unpublished) novel at the age of eleven. During World War
II she trained as a nurse at St Thomas's Hospital in London.
Lucilla Andrews later became one of Britain's leading romantic
novelists, and many of her books draw upon her own experiences of her
medical background. Lucilla Andrews lived in Edinburgh during the
later part of her life, and she died there in 2006, aged 86. No
Time For Romance is her vivid real-life account of her wartime
nursing experiences.
