Ring in a Teacup
by Betty Neels
1978Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, MedicalReader's ChoiceRomance-language fictionNurses, fictionPhysicians, fiction
4.6
Open LibraryAbout this book
She'd never seen a man so angry! Nurse Lucy Prendergast had not made a good impression. Falling asleep during a consultant's lecture was hardly the best way to attract the great man's attention! So she set out to correct the bad impression she'd made. Dr. Fraam der Linssen, however, seemed to have a positive genius for catching her in the most awkward situations. And anyway, why should she care what he thought? He'd already made it plain that he preferred her pretty friend, Mies.
Themes & subjects
Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, MedicalReader's ChoiceRomance-language fictionNurses, fictionPhysicians, fictionMan-woman relationships, fiction
First published 1978Characters & people
Setting
EnglandHolland
About the author
Betty Neels
15 September 1910 – 7 June 2001
Betty Neels was born on September 15, 1910 in Devon to a family with firm roots in the civil service. She said she had a blissfully happy childhood and teenage years, which stood her in good stead for the tribulations to come with the Second World War. She was sent away to boarding school, and then went on to train as a nurse, gaining her SRN and SCM, that is, State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery. In 1939 she was called up to the Territorial Army Nursing Service, which later became the Queen Alexandra Reserves, and was sent to France with the Casualty Clearing Station. This comprised eight nursing sisters, including Betty, to 100 men! In other circumstances, she thoug…
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