Merry Christmas Coronation Street

Coronation Street #7

by Maggie Sullivan

It’s Christmas on the nation’s favourite street in this heartwarming and gripping family drama.‘Wonderfully nostalgic’ Choice Magazine

Peggy Brown is an aspiring actress with Big Dreams, but for now she must tread the boards in the yearly panto at the Weatherfield Majestic Theatre.

She finds lodgings with fiery Coronation Street resident Elsie Tanner, but what Peggy doesn’t know is that Elsie’s latest fella is caught up in illegal activity, something which could put them both in danger.

As Peggy struggles on the chorus line, and Elsie gets in over her head, the scene is set for a Christmas of shocks and surprises. Can the spirit of Coronation Street prevail and remind everyone just what the season is all about?

382 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 21, 2024

Reviews

[Mark Allinson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice enough to be in the wartime Street again, but this episode was rather thin and mainly predictable - all bar the slightly implausible subplot of Elsie as gangster’s moll. The Street’s main characters are, apart from Mrs Tanner, relegated to the sidelines which rather undermines the purpose of the series. There is a lot of repetitive padding on rather too many of the pages, though it remains readable on the whole. Perhaps the weakest of the series - these are much more interesting when the backstory of well known characters is explored.

[Rob Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐️3.5⭐️
Another enjoyable wartime saga story.

The Elsie Tanner B plot felt a bit shoehorned in to give a genuine Coronation Street story as lead character Peggy Brown was a new character. As a result there were elements of the A plot that could have been fleshed out.

At the time of review, there isn't any more due for release which would be a shame.