No Time For Romance
Author: Andrews, Lucilla
ISBN: 9780552164818
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 09 Jun 2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A vivid account of wartime London and the life of a great hospital during the horrors of the blitz.
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.
ISBN: 9780552164818
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 09 Jun 2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A vivid account of wartime London and the life of a great hospital during the horrors of the blitz.
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.
