Nurse at Ward Nine

Claire Melville seems to have everything a girl could want – a happy home, loving parents - and steady, faithful Martin. It takes all her determination to achieve her ambition to trains as a nurse at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, and when she does so she finds herself on Ward Nine – men's medical – where things are far from being cosy or treasuring. There was the pain Claire felt, but was not allowed to show, over her young patient Julian; ; there was the domineering nurse whose jealousy threatened to spoil Claire's career. And worst of all, there was that infuriating, cold-eyed, moody Doctor Andrew McFarlane…