Celebrity Suite Nurse

by Suzanne Roberts

Poppy Helden had never forgotten her promise to return to her hometown as a nurse in the little clinic there. But Miami Beach, where she was training, had many distractions. There was the warm lazy sunshine of the beach, and the beguiling attentions of young Dr. Steve Harper. When Poppy's singing idol, Nicky Farrell, became her patient in the Celebrity Suite, Poppy's heart began to beat to a new and different tune and she was caught in a clash of conflict . . . in which both her love and career hung in the balance.

127 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1965

Reviews

[Oliver Clarke · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this a whole lot more than I expected to. An ambitious young nurse gets moved to work on a ward that caters for celebrities. There she has to choose between a dreamy pop star, a dependable but boring doctor and her career. Kept me gripped and grinning to the (mostly) satisfying conclusion.

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

Repetitious and repetitious. With that said, we follow nurse Poppy as she wrestles with the decision of whether to return to the clinic in her small Georgia home town or to stay in glamorous Miami Beach. And which of the two men in love with her will she choose? Handsome Dr. Harper or pop idol Nicky Farrell? All three of these characters are emotionally high strung, so that at least keeps the narrative pinging from emotional high to low with ricochets everywhere in between. If it were half as long it would have a made a tight if predictable novella. Instead we have sixty pages of repetition and that makes a boring novel. True to the formula, you know how this ends before it starts.