Maureen Lee is a British novelist of one hundred and fifty short-stories and dramatic historical romance novels. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Nerys Hughes is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles, including her part in the BBC TV series The Liver Birds. She later played the eponymous lead in The District Nurse, a series which was written for her, and won the Variety Club Television Actress of the Year Award.