Lucilla Andrews

Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (b. November 21 1919, Suez - October 3, 2006, Edinburgh) was a British romantic novelist as Lucilla Andrews.

She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II.

She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.

As a writer of thirty-five novels over the period 1954-96 she specialised in hospital romances. Her noms de plume included Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus.

In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.

Single novels

 * The Print Petticoat (1954)
 * The Secret Armour (1955)
 * The Quiet Wards (1956)
 * The First Year (1957)
 * A Hospital Summer (1958)
 * The Wife of the Red-Haired Man (1959)
 * My Friend the Professor (1960)
 * Nurse Errant (1961)
 * Flowers from the Doctor (1963)
 * The Young Doctors Downstairs (1963)
 * The New Sister Theatre (1964)
 * A House for Sister Mary (1966)
 * The Light in the Ward (1966)
 * Hospital Circles (1967)
 * Highland Interlude (1968)
 * The Healing Time (1969)
 * Edinburgh Excursion (1970)
 * Ring O'Roses (1972)
 * Silent Song (1973)
 * In Storm and in Calm (1975)
 * Busman's Holiday (1978)
 * The Crystal Gull (1978)
 * One Night in London (1979)
 * Weekend in the Garden (1981)
 * In an Edinburgh Drawing Room (1983)
 * After a Famous Victory (1984)
 * Lights of London (1985)
 * The Phoenix Syndrome (1987)
 * Frontline 1940 (1990)
 * The Africa Run (1993)
 * Endel House (1993)
 * The Sinister Side (1996)

Omnibus

 * My Friend the Professor / Highland Interlude / Ring O' Roses (1979)

Non fiction

 * No Time for Romance (1977)

Single novels

 * A Few Days in Endel (1967)

Single novels

 * Marsh Blood (1980)