Title: No Time for Romance
First published: 1977
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.
Subjects: Biography, English Novelists, Novelists, English, Nurses, World War, 1939-1945, English Women novelists
Places: England, Great Britain
People: Lucilla Andrews
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6051.N4654 Z47