He was a tall, wiry boy with a close-cropped head, a broad grin, and a large pair of nimble hands. She also has a wholesome kinda-boyfriend named Christopher (called Kit):Ĭhristopher Thomas had appeared beside her. In her classroom she was all brisk efficiency, but here at home she was always in a muddle. Mother was stirring something madly with the electric beater. Saying good-bye to Peggy, Robin went into the kitchen. She was known as the fireball of the senior class, a petite package of merry energy who could always get the sparks flying and the fun going. She lives with her widowed mother, her younger brother, Slugger (!!!) and has a wholesome best friend named Peggy.Īlthough Robin does not narrate her own adventures, the prose style is still breathlessly annoying:
Robin is graduating from Brentwood High School, Anystate, USA as the book opens. The Plot: And frankly, I’m surprised Dell even bothered, since Robin West is the most fatuous heroine I’ve encountered since Polly French. “Louise Christopher” is a pen name for romance writer Arlene Hall, who has a number of “nurse” romances on her CV, but apparently Robin West only rated one follow-up: Robin West: Freshman Nurse in 1964. I went searching to see if this was the beginning of a series, but info was difficult to turn up. The age of the vintage Nurse Romance has mostly passed: Harlequin still publishes “medical” category romances, although I rarely see them for sale, and General Hospital is currently trudging into its 55 th year on TV, but nursing seems to have lost some of its glamour for the kids these days. It’s easy to see why nurse books were so popular amongst young, female readers of the 20 th century: nurses got to actually do things: live away from home to train, solve mysteries, fight in a World War (or II), romance “ groovey interns”, escape from Nightmare Islands, minister to Hootenannies… in fact, just go over to the Vintage Nurse Romance Novels website for the rest of the afternoon. The pretty nurse’s aide becomes involved in the strange life of a beautiful debutante…
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