Mother's Day on Coronation St. / Coronation Street (Manchester, England : Imaginary place) World War, 1939-1945
Sullivan, Maggie,
Mother's Day on Coronation St. / Mother's Day on Coronation Street. Maggie Sullivan. - 375 pages ; 25 cm. - Coronation Street ; 2. . - Sullivan, Maggie. Coronation Street ; 2. .
"Someone's been keeping a secret ... on the nation's favourite street"--cover.
It's 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rovers 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.
9780008256531 (hardback)
Coronation Street (Manchester, England : Imaginary place)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--England--Manchester--Fiction.
Manchester (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
823.92
Mother's Day on Coronation St. / Mother's Day on Coronation Street. Maggie Sullivan. - 375 pages ; 25 cm. - Coronation Street ; 2. . - Sullivan, Maggie. Coronation Street ; 2. .
"Someone's been keeping a secret ... on the nation's favourite street"--cover.
It's 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rovers 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.
9780008256531 (hardback)
Coronation Street (Manchester, England : Imaginary place)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--England--Manchester--Fiction.
Manchester (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
823.92