Coronation Street - The Way To VictoryBy Christine Green
It is 1943 and, as the war grinds on, life is hard on Coronation Street. The German bombing continues, the Yanks have been posted overseas and for Elsie Tanner the world is once again a colourless place of dreary munitions work and the restrictions of rationing. Under the disapproving eye of street matriarch Ena Sharples, Elsie sets out on a potentially disastrous search for excitement. Elsie isn't the only one missing the men. Down the street Ida Barlow waits anxiously for news of her husband Frank while her son Kenneth grows up without a father. Annie Walker gets a new glint in her eye when discreetly pursued by the local headmaster and local girl Hilda Crebtree finds love in the blackout when she trips over a drunk Stan Ogden. Sadly, the police are also interested in her rough-edged Romeo... Whether searching for Minnie Caldwell's ghost, or facing the threat of an unexploded bomb, the inhabitants of Coronation Street continue to fall out and make up in their own inimitable style. Full of romance, scandal and humour, Coronation Street: The Way to Victory is sure to delight you.
ReviewsBriefly-it just seemed a bit inconsistent with "Coronation Street at War". For instance, Dot couldn't stand Walter in the first book. By the second, she'd married him!However, I'd still like to see the books turned into a TV series-how about Jane Danson as the young Elsie Tanner? Quite an enjoyable book, though I would be suprised if an Italian would have escaped internment during the war. Good job the old re-runs have been on Granada plus otherwise a lot of the characters would be a mystery to recent fans of the soap - but good to see Barlow get a mention as a bet wetter!If you like Corrie buy this. This is an excellent novel for anyone who can remember the original characters in the series. Images of Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell, Martha Longhurst, Elsie Tanner, Len Fairclough, Albert Tatlock, Annie Walker, Hilda Crabtree and Stan Ogden, etc. come alive in the pages. Their personalities are captured very accurately as they battle their gritty, sometimes sad and often humourous ways through the dark days of World War II.Very well written and very easy to read, a real page turner for the Corrie fan. | ||||
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