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Crystal Gull
Serena keeps meeting Joe Verica in the middle of disasters - first an airplane crash, then a fire, then an avalanche. But is the biggest disaster his proposal of marriage?
- GenresRomance
150 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1978
About the author
Lucilla Andrews
85 books10 followersLucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton
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Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. 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. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
aka
Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. 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. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
June 1, 2020
This was just what I was in the mood for - despite the back cover copy, Serena is pretty much entirely over her jerk ex; she and Joe meet cute when she rescues him from a crashed airplane, and then there's lots of fun medical drama and friendly banter. That said, the big misunderstanding was especially stupid and there were a few too many mentions of how Joe's "Latin blood" made him especially macho/passionate, but over all this is going up there with my favorite Andrews books.
November 16, 2022
Predictable - of course. Enjoyable - yes, just what I needed when I felt under the weather. Serena saves Joe’s life whilst still recovering from a broken relationship - it takes a further few meetings and an avalanche for her to realise her true feelings. That’s the basic story padded out with hospital routine, a rather too lengthy account of a journey and the usual complications of misunderstandings.
July 21, 2021
The Crystal Gull is a very good story by Lucille Andrew’s it is set in the Alps is very interesting I like her books so I would recommend it to anyone
January 3, 2022
A Bad Romance
Too much talking. Not a hospital romance, but the story of a couple always misunderstanding each other. I could not like it.
Too much talking. Not a hospital romance, but the story of a couple always misunderstanding each other. I could not like it.
September 2, 2016
Aika kökkö romanssi. Ei ehkä ole minun genre.
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