Tough Times On Coronation Close

I feel like I'm coming home when I return to Coronation Close. The neighbors make the street lively and quite interesting.

I am quite fond of Thelma and Jenny. They have had hard lives but they stand tall in times of trouble. They are there for each other as well as all the other neighbors.

War is hard for the men who are fighting in it.  But the women and the families left behind find it difficult as well.

My Mom lived in a town close to London during WW II. She has told me about rationing, going to the bomb shelter and living without many things we take for granted.  It was touched upon in this story.  Jenny and Thelma had to reuse old tea leaves for three or more times to have a "cuppa".  We just grab a tea bag after one use and toss it.

I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter about these amazing women. The next book will introduce new relationships and the further adventures of Coronation Close.

I received this book to review from Boldwood Books.

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Tough Times on Coronation Close

As the war rages, the women must keep the home fires burning…

Bristol 1941

Coronation Close survives the brutal Bristol Blitz but with rationing, call up papers and new rules and regulations everyone’s lives are changed forever.

Resident do-gooder PC Percy Routledge obsession with rules being upheld finds him spying and reporting fellow neighbours on the slightest infraction whilst his poor brow-beaten wife, Margaret can only watch on in shameful silence. It’s whispered that one day he’ll get his comeuppance…

Times are hard for everyone and Thelma Dawson certainly has her fair share of upset. Devastating news arrives that her son Charlie’s ship has been torpedoed and sank in the Atlantic, his whereabout unknown. Will he ever return to his wife and their unborn child? Meanwhile, seventeen years old daughter Mary has had her head turned by a certain overseas soldier. But where will temptation lead them?

Tough times, it seems are her to stay and the woman of Coronation Close all have their own battles and problems to overcome. As friendships are nurtured and relationships are tested, tragedy strikes and some home truths need to be faced.

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Author Bio – 

Summer time and the eightieth anniversary of D Day. I visited the veterans cemetery above Omaha Beach some years ago. The rows of gleaming crosses brought tears and I could barely speak. Those soldiers were so young, not much older than my grandchildren. Besides writing the Coronation Close series and the Orchard Cottage Hospital series, two other books will be published in August that refer back to the Second World War. The first begins in Hong Kong around Christmas time 1941. Pearl Harbour had been attacked in early December. Now it was the turn of Hong Kong and then Singapore. My heroine in this is a doctor who got caught up in the horror of the Christmas Day massacre at a Hong Kong hospital. Doctor of Kowloon. The second of these two is Escape from Kowloon. Her fear for a man obsessed with possessing her in body and mind forces her into another war - this time in Korea.

Why do I write about war? Because I recall those of the war generation who were relatives and neighbours of my mother's generation. I'm handing the stories on - perhaps in the hope that such horror never happens again. I was impressed by the stoical women of that time. Somehow, despite the shortages and the fear, they carried on. Not so much keep calm and carry on for its own sake or for governments or general - but for the sake of their families and their hope for the future.

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