The Golden Hour

London, 1955. Nurse Alice Shane risks heartbreak when she gets too close to a doctor, and an abandoned baby, in a busy East End hospital. "Arguably the best of all writers of hospital fiction." Nursing Times Alice has fallen for pathologist Joe Loftus. But the hospital gossips expect him to marry Sister Rosemary Lockhart. Should Alice keep her love and admiration for Joe a secret? Young doctor Barny Morant has a reputation as a womaniser. Can he prove to Alice's friend, Nurse Christine Blake, that this time he is serious? There are daily challenges on the wards of St Michael's Hospital. Alice must comfort her patients through life and death situations. But the fate of tiny baby Thomas is her most difficult case yet. And all of her strength as a nurse and a woman is needed when she finds a doctor in deadly peril. A heartwarming hospital romance about the life and loves of a young nurse in the 1950s. The Golden Hour is the second ebook in the new "Anniversary Collection" of novels by Lucilla Andrews to be 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 marks 60 years since Lucilla became a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and 2021 will be the 15th anniversary of her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA.