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Coronation Street #2
Mother’s Day on Coronation Street
The perfect heartwarming read, full of nostalgia and charm, for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love Fiction set in times past.
It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rover’s Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy.
Gracie Ashton works behind the bar at the Rovers and scoffs at the daft girls who are having their heads turned by the American soldiers flooding into Weatherfield. But when she finds herself thrown together with the handsome GI, Chuck Dawson, Gracie wonders if she has her own head screwed on right.
With rationing, air raids and blackouts, the wives and mothers of Coronation Street are determined to count their blessings, but when an unwelcome face from the past turns up at the Rovers it looks like Annie will have more to worry about than Hitler’s bombs…
Full of Coronation Street’s trademark humour and warmth, it’s the perfect gift for Mother’s Day.
It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rover’s Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy.
Gracie Ashton works behind the bar at the Rovers and scoffs at the daft girls who are having their heads turned by the American soldiers flooding into Weatherfield. But when she finds herself thrown together with the handsome GI, Chuck Dawson, Gracie wonders if she has her own head screwed on right.
With rationing, air raids and blackouts, the wives and mothers of Coronation Street are determined to count their blessings, but when an unwelcome face from the past turns up at the Rovers it looks like Annie will have more to worry about than Hitler’s bombs…
Full of Coronation Street’s trademark humour and warmth, it’s the perfect gift for Mother’s Day.
384 pages, Hardcover
Published February 8, 2018
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March 11, 2018
Loved it
March 1942 wartime in Manchester. 32 years old Annie walker the rovers return landlady running the pub while husband Jack is away with the forces. With two children Billy and joanie and a pub to run she certainly has her hands full. Then a young woman turns up at the pub seeking out Annie, and the book travels back to 1928 and a secret that Annie has been keeping starts to unfold. I am a big fan of coronation street and also a family saga war reader and I found this book absolutely fascinating to read would recommend to all book readers
March 1942 wartime in Manchester. 32 years old Annie walker the rovers return landlady running the pub while husband Jack is away with the forces. With two children Billy and joanie and a pub to run she certainly has her hands full. Then a young woman turns up at the pub seeking out Annie, and the book travels back to 1928 and a secret that Annie has been keeping starts to unfold. I am a big fan of coronation street and also a family saga war reader and I found this book absolutely fascinating to read would recommend to all book readers
March 28, 2020
I love these soap tie in books.
This one is all centred on mothers, motherhood and family in general
during the war years.
The lynch pin is Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers return but we hear intertwining stories of other key characters too.
Gracie Ashton, the Rovers barmaid and her love story with Chuck the GI and of course we get to head a lot of Annie's past too before the war years and her home life.
Family secrets, lost relatives, regained, unexpected family.
It's all happening on Coronation street.
A sweet story of a woman's place in society and how important they were to the war effort and of their worth when it comes to dealing with home and hearth.
This one is all centred on mothers, motherhood and family in general
during the war years.
The lynch pin is Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers return but we hear intertwining stories of other key characters too.
Gracie Ashton, the Rovers barmaid and her love story with Chuck the GI and of course we get to head a lot of Annie's past too before the war years and her home life.
Family secrets, lost relatives, regained, unexpected family.
It's all happening on Coronation street.
A sweet story of a woman's place in society and how important they were to the war effort and of their worth when it comes to dealing with home and hearth.
July 9, 2024
10 out 10 for nostalgia
February 16, 2018
Annie walker
This is her story and a story well worth reading, and other people's stories intertwining with hers, a smashing book
This is her story and a story well worth reading, and other people's stories intertwining with hers, a smashing book
April 5, 2019
An enjoyable read of wartime romances set on the backdrop of Coronation Street's Weatherfield and surrounding areas.
The book jumps between the 1920s right up towards the end of the Second World War and largely focuses on Rovers Return Landlady Annie Walker (Elsie Tanner, the lead in the previous book is reduced to cameos here).
While as not a dark as the previous edition occasionally became in places, this continues to bring the drama and humour associated with series and I enjoyed reading it throughout.
The book jumps between the 1920s right up towards the end of the Second World War and largely focuses on Rovers Return Landlady Annie Walker (Elsie Tanner, the lead in the previous book is reduced to cameos here).
While as not a dark as the previous edition occasionally became in places, this continues to bring the drama and humour associated with series and I enjoyed reading it throughout.
February 27, 2018
Another great read from Maggie Sullivan . I love reading the Coronation books very nostalgic. I really do hope there’s a third book 📖 .
Great to be able to read about earlier characters from Corrie too x
Great to be able to read about earlier characters from Corrie too x
March 31, 2019
My 5* review for a wonderful book full of nostalgia, wartime spirit, and familiar characters.
"It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rover’s Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy. Then a young woman turns up at the pub seeking out Annie, and the book travels back to 1927 and a secret that Annie has been keeping from a time she would rather forget."
This book was full of the characters I was brought up watching from the tv series Coronation Street with my Mum from Annie Walker (her boisterous son Billy), Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples and Albert Tatlock. It totally encapsulated them and the whole wartime feeling of the streets in Manchester in that era and how the families all pulled together. The Rovers Return is obviously at the centre of the story, and I thought the images of the pub, drinking habits and back to back houses was spot on. Beautifully written with a great story which totally engrossed me and I was so pleased to have received it to read for Mother's Day.
"It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rover’s Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy. Then a young woman turns up at the pub seeking out Annie, and the book travels back to 1927 and a secret that Annie has been keeping from a time she would rather forget."
This book was full of the characters I was brought up watching from the tv series Coronation Street with my Mum from Annie Walker (her boisterous son Billy), Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples and Albert Tatlock. It totally encapsulated them and the whole wartime feeling of the streets in Manchester in that era and how the families all pulled together. The Rovers Return is obviously at the centre of the story, and I thought the images of the pub, drinking habits and back to back houses was spot on. Beautifully written with a great story which totally engrossed me and I was so pleased to have received it to read for Mother's Day.
June 17, 2024
4 stars. Full disclosure, I'm a huge Coronation Street fan and have been for decades. When I saw the first book in this series, "Christmas on Coronation Street" and read it and enjoyed it, I was going to be reading this one once I saw it listed. Set in Coronation Street in Weatherfield in the North of England in the 1940's during World War II, this book features Annie Walker who was the landlady at the iconic Rover's Return pub, her husband Jack off to war and her two young children with her living above the pub. It also features another gal, Gracie Ashton who works behind the bar at the Rovers but who had an interesting story of her beginnings and how she got to Weatherfield. It was a lovely story about life in wartime, about different classes of people in England and how their lives are so different and about the mores of the time. I thought it was a lovely read.
April 28, 2018
Als iemand een boek zou schrijven over de jeugd van Janine of Laura uit gtst zou ik daar denk ik wel nieuwsgierig naar zijn. Dus ik kan me best voorstellen dat fans van Coronation Street van deze boeken smullen. Maar oh! Wat is het vreselijk slecht geschreven en gruwelijk zoet, het glazuur spat gewoon van je tanden. Alle spannende verhaallijnen zijn na 3 bladzijden alweer rechtgebreid, alle conflicten worden meteen bijgelegd (glas, plas, was), en alles wat ons al lang duidelijk was uit de ellenlange dialogen wordt daarna nog eens uitgebreid uitgelegd. Geheel dichtgeplamuurd meisjesverhaal zonder hoogte- of dieptepunten.
April 9, 2018
What an interesting read, Yes it is set in the fictional Street of Coronation Street and the Rovers, but it could have been anywhere in the North West of Lancashire. It is an interesting concept with the WW2 raging all over Europe and the Far East, a lot of the men folk away fighting in the war with the advent of the USA entering the hostilities there are a large number of American troops stationed here, there and everywhere. It is about how the women coped during the war and the "friendships" between the American troops and the women of Weatherfield. It's an easy to read and enjoyable
April 22, 2018
Wonderful
This book centres around the life of Annie Walker. As a child in the 60s and 70s i used to love watching Coronation Street with my mum and remember Annie well. I really enjoyed this book and although it was a bit slow to start with, in the end I couldn't put it down. Would definitely recommend.
This book centres around the life of Annie Walker. As a child in the 60s and 70s i used to love watching Coronation Street with my mum and remember Annie well. I really enjoyed this book and although it was a bit slow to start with, in the end I couldn't put it down. Would definitely recommend.
April 16, 2021
A good read
An enjoyable story which was vibrant and intriguing, whilst providing the background stories of familiar , early characters such as Annie Walks and Men Barlow. It was interesting and believable. I liked following their lives, but it would be enjoyable even to readers who have never seen Coronation Street.
An enjoyable story which was vibrant and intriguing, whilst providing the background stories of familiar , early characters such as Annie Walks and Men Barlow. It was interesting and believable. I liked following their lives, but it would be enjoyable even to readers who have never seen Coronation Street.
July 12, 2024
Set in 1942 during WW11 this second book in the series focuses on Annie Walker, landlady of the pub The Rovers Return. The story delves into her sad childhood and the changes her family experiences from wealth to poverty. This book is full of all the nostalgia and charm of Coronation Street, a TV series for 64 years and still going.
March 17, 2019
A good read,
Behind the Lady like smile of Annie walker , a good glimpse of the girl ,who would become, the first landLady of Britain's best loved Pub, a very believable story of the cobbled street, in the war years
Behind the Lady like smile of Annie walker , a good glimpse of the girl ,who would become, the first landLady of Britain's best loved Pub, a very believable story of the cobbled street, in the war years
March 31, 2019
Loved this book will tell other to read this book and i would give it10/10 best book to read
Best book I have read would tell everyone to go and buy the book I give it 10/10 it a good read
Best book I have read would tell everyone to go and buy the book I give it 10/10 it a good read
January 15, 2020
Good read
Enjoyed this very much, was very nostalgic reading about Annie Walker, Ida Barlow, Albert Tatlock and End Sharples .The book is set during the second world war and we follow the life of Annie Walker during her younger days
Enjoyed this very much, was very nostalgic reading about Annie Walker, Ida Barlow, Albert Tatlock and End Sharples .The book is set during the second world war and we follow the life of Annie Walker during her younger days
January 25, 2019
Fab book really enjoyed it 👍
March 12, 2019
I enjoyed the two storylines running together and thought they came together well. Istruggled to put this book down.
January 6, 2020
Another good one. First book was about Elsie Tanner’s life and how she came to Corrie. This one is about Annie Walker and her life, very interesting.
January 12, 2020
This was such an enjoyable read. I highly recommend.
June 1, 2020
Lovely read about all our favourite soap characters against the backdrop of such historical times.
January 11, 2022
Annie walker story of her as a young girl and a wife/Mother
August 4, 2023
Really good read x
November 19, 2023
Brilliant
September 29, 2024
A lovely trip to Coronation Street that is a fan pleaser.
January 19, 2022
I loved this story i could see it all played out on coronation Street cant wait to read the next book
December 3, 2023
Loved it!!!
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