Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (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.

Bibliography

As Lucilla Andrews

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)

As Diana Gordon

Single novels

• A Few Days in Endel (1967)

As Joanna Marcus

Single novels

• Marsh Blood (1980)

References