Jan Haye

Elizabeth Davenport had decided that the frivolous life of a deb was not for her and made up her mind to embark on a nursing career. But was she wise to choose to work at the hospital where her father was a senior consultant?

Nurse Hilary Hope, just recovered from an attack of pneumonia, took the job of accompanying Lady Vesper to Auvergne, in France, as her nurse. There she met her ladyship's doctor, Raoul de la Rue, to whom she was attracted despite herself, for theirs was by no means an amicable relationship.

When Antonia Hylton, through her Lend A Hand service agency, met Doctor Bruce Medway - and his responsibilities, both family and professional - she found her capabilities stretched to the utmost. Yet her heart would not let her ignore the challenge.

Camilla’s mother had been a world famous ballerina, and Camilla herself showed every sign of having inherited all her brilliance. So when she became involved with what her guardian considered a most unsuitable young man, he whisked her into a ballet school in the hope that a distinguished dancing career would make her forget him. In this he soon succeeded - but it was not her dancing, but her ballet mistress’s attractive nephew Vivian Sheppey who speedily drove all thought of Colin out of Camille’s head. But by this time it had become apparent to both her teachers and her guardian that her talent was destined to take her to the top of the ladder. Could Camilla convince them, could she convince Vivian himself, that dancing meant nothing to her if it meant giving up the man she loved?