Background
Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility.
Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility.
Born Lucilla Matthew Andrews on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at Street Thomas" Hospital, London, during World World War World War II She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration.
In 1969, she decided to move to Edinburgh.
Her daughter read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. She died on 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh.
In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews" autobiography Number Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. lieutenant has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarised from this work while writing his novel, Atonement.
McEwan has protested his innocence.
"lieutenant was ironic that even my small triumphs were not attributed to medical " (Pippa Dexter: in "Pippa"s Story", 29 June 1968 Woman"s Weekly page 17).
Quotations: "lieutenant was ironic that even my small triumphs were not attributed to medical " (Pippa Dexter: in "Pippa"s Story", 29 June 1968 Woman"s Weekly page 17).
