[1][2] On 19 December 1932 she married Ernest Stanhope Andrews, a public servant, who became the founding director of New Zealand's National Film Unit in 1941.

A newspaper review in The Nelson Evening Mail praised her "well-told stories strongly seasoned with local atmosphere", and said "the scenes she portrays and the characters she delineates will be readily recognised, for we have met their counterparts in town and country.

She wrote over 60 plays which usually involved scenes of domestic life with all-female casts (particularly during World War II when there were limited male actors available).

M. H. Holcroft, the editor of the Listener for eighteen years, said in his autobiography that Andrews could "turn in a story of exceptional quality".

[1] In 1967 she was awarded a Scholarship in Letters by the New Zealand Literary Fund, which enabled her to write her first novel, Return to Marara (1969), followed by a sequel Exit with Emeralds (1971).

[1][2] A review of Return to Marara in newspaper The Press said "this diverting book transcends the usual limits of [romantic fiction]", and described it as a "well-observed picture of a growing New Zealand town" in which Andrews "shows an inspired sense of the ridiculous".

[18][19] In October 2020 it was performed at the Whangārei Fringe Festival by two teachers and ten students from Whangarei Girls' High School.