tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post3015619821903984635..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: LUCILLA ANDREWS, No Time for Romance (1977)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-39549104514044657432013-11-21T15:52:03.108-08:002013-11-21T15:52:03.108-08:00Hi, Michelle. So glad you found and are enjoying ...Hi, Michelle. So glad you found and are enjoying the blog! I'm always happy to welcome folks with some of the same interests--for a long time I thought I was practically the only one who loved these authors, but there are obviously quite a few of us!<br /><br />The book you describe does sound interesting. I wonder if it could have been The Print Petticoat, her first novel which she had to tone down. That one does seem to have been set during the war. I'll have to look more deeply into Andrews' earlier work--more to add to the "to read" list!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-6074549743113612062013-11-21T04:11:59.440-08:002013-11-21T04:11:59.440-08:00Scott, Can I say I have just discovered your blog...Scott, Can I say I have just discovered your blog, (thanks to another blogger recommendation) and find it most entertaining, as the writers you cover were staples of the library I used many years ago, but I haven't heard of them since, and they never seemed to appear in the bookshops. As you say, all these ladies were great storytellers, if not great novelists, and I am sure there will be a revival of interest in their work, as it now has the added patina of nostalgia for times gone by<br /><br />The reason I thought of contacting you is I have just read this blog on Lucilla Andrews. As you know, she wrote light hospital romances, some of which I read in bygone days. One in particular was a book I think you would throughly enjoy, as it was about a nurse in a London hospital in 1944/5? I have never read a book, whether fact or fiction, which gave such an immediate feel of what the end of the war years were like for people on the home front - the very weariness and hoping for peace. I have never forgotten it, but unfortunately I cannot remember which title it was, except it was one of her early novels. <br /><br />I know this is not very helpful, but thought you may enjoy tracking it down! <br />Michelle Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499490029910905577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-56146289311442686912013-08-13T18:24:05.316-07:002013-08-13T18:24:05.316-07:00Make that "hate" rather than "have....Make that "hate" rather than "have." :-)Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-60542182760385907502013-08-13T18:23:11.396-07:002013-08-13T18:23:11.396-07:00Oh, no! I have that Blogger makes it hard to comm...Oh, no! I have that Blogger makes it hard to comment. A couple of people have emailed saying they couldn't get the comments to work. Thank you for persevering!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-58087685876374682342013-08-13T18:21:46.223-07:002013-08-13T18:21:46.223-07:00You know, Susan, I'm pretty sure it was your r...You know, Susan, I'm pretty sure it was your recommendation that turned me on to both books (this one and Frontline 1940), so I owe you a big thank you! I would be curious to read Andrews' first novel or two, to see if anything of the original grittiness survived. It's tantalizing to think that maybe somewhere the original manuscript could still be "found in an attic." I seem to recall that she writes about destroying an earlier manuscript too.<br /><br />Millions Like Us is definitely on my reading list, and on your recommendation I will bump it further up!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-85849037025123100222013-08-13T16:03:23.581-07:002013-08-13T16:03:23.581-07:00Hmmm, finally got my comment to show up. But I ha...Hmmm, finally got my comment to show up. But I had to sign away several levels of cookie privacy (i.e., leave my door wide open to strangers) to get it to work. Now I'll close the doorSusan Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-77715076281302226762013-08-13T16:01:39.555-07:002013-08-13T16:01:39.555-07:00Oh, I just love this book (it's on my Home Fro...Oh, I just love this book (it's on my Home Front bookshelf) and have read it several times, along with Dateline (Frontline?) 1940.<br /><br />When I saw the movie Atonement, I was strongly struck by how some of the scenes at the hospital reminded me of LA's book. I noted at the end of the movie (or was it the book?) MacEwan mentioned her as a source. After that, I read about the plagiarism controversy online. There is definitely one scene taken directly from No Time for Romance.<br /><br />I wish her other books had been permitted to cover the war, but I can understand, perhaps, why readers were tired of it. In fact, just having read "Millions Like Us" I learned that so many women truly did just want to get back to life as it was before the war, instead of making more of their newfound independence.Susan Dhttp://www.destevenson.orgnoreply@blogger.com