The White Walls

London, 1954. Young theatre nurse Clare Maitland makes a life-changing move after Dr Bill Blake suddenly ends their engagement. Can she find love and happiness again in the Scottish Highlands?

"Arguably the best of all writers of hospital fiction." Nursing Times

Clare is devastated when her fiancé calls off their dream wedding because he wants to marry someone else.

Her friendship with charming surgeon Andrew Darvie provides comfort, but is it enough to mend a broken heart? Meanwhile, Clare's feelings are hurt by the harsh comments of moody but talented Dr Hugh Sanders . She can't understand his cool attitude towards her.

The chance of a nursing job in Scotland seems the answer to all of Clare's problems. But she soon discovers that escaping the men in her life won't be as easy as she imagined.

A heartwarming hospital romance about the life and loves of a young nurse in the 1950s.

The White Walls is the first book in the "Anniversary Collection" of novels by Lucilla Andrews published between 2020 and 2021. These best-loved stories by Lucilla, which first appeared many years ago as serials, are released to celebrate two important anniversaries. 2020 marked 60 years since Lucilla became a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and 2021 is the 15th anniversary of her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA.