When things don't run smoothly between the pair, could they both be hiding their true emotions? Shelley is saved from drowning while on holiday, and is surprised to learn that she and her rescuer work at the same London hospital. There is no possibility of a romance - Shelley expects to marry her childhood sweetheart Alistair, and Jason is seen out and about with the glamorous Bettina Orme. But working alongside Jason, Shelley realises her feelings for him are more complicated than she first thought. Shelley also has to deal with the heartbreak and hope that are part of daily life in the wards and operating theatres of a busy city hospital. With problems in her personal and professional life, can Shelley gain lasting happiness? A moving romance and a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of nurses and doctors in the 1960s, with all of the trademark warmth and realism of a hospital story by Lucilla Andrews. The Young Doctors Downstairs is the ninth novel by the bestselling hospital fiction author Lucilla Andrews. For the first time, Lucilla's novels are now available as ebooks. More at www.lucillaandrews.com

    She is willing but forgetful, as she does many chores. During the time spent with her here, not too much happens- her father gets a wonderful commission, her widowed aunt receives a proposal which should make her happier than it does, and Setsuko's talent is recognized and her hopes confirmed. But there are many graceful scenes and nice details of places, shops, school, food and flowers, etc. so that the story, while low-keyed, is never dull.

    T. A. Hoffmann dwelt in the realm of "things that seem to not exist but live just the same." The truth of these words of Balzac's about Germany's greatest Romantic storyteller is confirmed by all five tales in this volume, each representing a different facet of Hoffmann's genius, yet bearing its unmistakable signature.The impact of these stories is all the more stunning because they are variations on a single theme: the pursuit of a man by a dark fate he nurtures within himself. Long before the advent of psychoanalysis, Hoffmann was aware of the threat of eruption from the unconscious. The weird lands he explores lie within ourselves.The SandmanOne of the tales selected by Offenbach for his opera Tales of Hoffmann. Nathanael, presented in childhood with a gruesome picture of the "bringer of sleep," flees all his life from a man who wants his eyes.Mademoiselle de ScuderyIn which a victim of split personality baffles the police of 17th century France.Datura FastuosaOf the awful consequences of repression and a mother fixation.The King's BrideSuch delightful whimsy! Yet it does not spare us an encounter with the more dubious aspects of ourselves.Gambler's LuckA suggestion of Edgar Allan Poe and perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson, and is there a touch of O. Henry?