Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton was a British romantic novelist as Lucilla Andrews. She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award. As a writer of thirty-five novels over the period 1954-96 she specialised in hospital romances. Her noms de plume included Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus. In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.