I don’t
think anyone is more surprised than I am to find that I have actually made it
to the fourth annual Vintage Nurse Romance Novel Awards. I’m not sure what it
says about me that 220 nurse novel reviews later, I’m still putting along; I
just hope it can in some way be construed a good thing.Rules of the game: Winners are chosen from the VNRNs I have read this year (42 books by 35 different authors). The Best Authors category includes all the VNRNs reviewed for this blog, but only authors with more than one review are included; the One-Hit Wonders category is reserved for the best books by authors with only one review.
BEST BOOKS
1.
Town
Nurse, Country Nurse, by Marjorie Lewty
2. Visiting
Nurse, by Jeanne Judson
3. Nurse
Tennant, by Elizabeth Hoy
4. Nurse
Greer, by Joan Garrison
5.
Woman
Doctor, by Alice Lent Covert
BEST COVERS
3. Luxury
Nurse
BEST QUOTES
1.
“Would you like to
go down by the river? There are benches, and I promise to behave outrageously.”
Jennifer
Jones, R.N., by Norman Daniels
2.
“She wished
frantically that she were back in some nice safe operating theatre where the
worst thing that ever happened at tables was that people died on them.” Nurse
Tennant, by Elizabeth Hoy
3.
“Oh, Anne, not
you—not you, of all people, wearing trousers!” Leap in the Dark, by Rona
Randall
4.
“The marvels of
artificial limbs, Lisa, can never be overestimated.” Luxury
Nurse, by Peggy Gaddis
5.
“ ‘She pushed me—’
He pointed an accusing finger at Rosemary. I was wholly on Rosemary’s side. We
girls must stick together, I thought, and besides, she really did look angelic
in that little pink dress.” Town
Nurse—Country Nurse, by Marjorie Lewty
6.
“She jerked open the
car door and saw the blood gushing from his chest. Instantly she stepped out of
her half-slip and started tearing it in strips. I’m glad I wore a cotton one, she thought.” A
Nurse Abroad, by Marion Marsh Brown
7.
“ ‘People don’t grow up
until they’ve had some banging around,’ he observed.
‘Well, bang me around
then,’ she replied. ‘I might like it.’ ” Five
O’Clock Surgeon, by Dorothy Pierce Walker
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8.
“It’s bad manners to
turn down a proposal before the fellow makes it. Gives a sort of impression of
overconfidence.” Candy
Frost, Emergency Nurse, by Ethel Hamill (pseudonym of Jean Francis WebbIII)
9.
“He’s not a complete
Philistine, you know. I told him that I liked French painting, so when I went
to see him at St. Agnes’s he talked about impressionism and the romantic
movement all through two hernia operations and one gastrectomy.” The
Doctors, by Clara Dormandy
10.
“Even at the risk of
destroying some beautiful image you might have of us Norberts, I must confess
that we still have an ample supply of vermouth.” Island
Doctor, by Isabel Cabot (pseudonym of Isabel Capeto)
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BEST AUTHORS
1. Faith Baldwin (3.8 average, based on 4
reviews)
4. Marguerite Mooers Marshall (3.7 average,
based on 2 reviews)
4. Jeanne Judson (3.7 average, based on 2
reviews)
4. Patricia Libby (3.7 average, based on 2
reviews)
7. Ethel Hamill (3.3 average, based on 3
reviews)
7. Helen B. Castle (3.3 average, based on 2
reviews)
7. Joyce Dingwell (3.3 average, based on 2
reviews)
9. Rosie M. Banks (3.2 average, based on 4
reviews)
9. Phyllis Ross (3.2 average, based on 2
reviews)
ONE-HIT WONDERS: Best VNRNs by authors with only one review
1.
“K”, by Mary
Roberts Rinehart
2.
A Challenge for Nurse Melanie, by Isabel Moore
3.
Surgical Call, by Margaret Sangster
4.
Nurse Pro Tem, by Glenna Finley
5.
Walk out of Darkness, by Arlene Karson
6.
Nurse at the Fair, by Dorothy Cole
7.
Woman
Doctor, Alice Lent Covert
8.
Nurse
Greer, by Joan Garrison
9.
Nurse
Tennant, by Elizabeth Hoy
10.
Town
Nurse—Country Nurse, by Marjorie Lewty
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