Coronation Street - The Epic Novel

Subtitled Four Decades of Life on the Street Katherine Hardys novelisation covers events from Ken Barlow rowing with his father over where he could and couldn't spend his free time and Dennis Tanner being accused of theft in December 1960 through to Deidre Barlow being jailed and the marriage of Nick Tilsey and Leanne Battersby in 1998. It concludes a short sequence where Ken wanders the street on December 31st 1999 reflecting on the events of the past 40 years.

Based very closely on scripts but with events rearranged chronologically to meet the demands of the change of medium it was published by Granada in 2003. A later edition was issued that carried events forward as far as the Richard Hilman storyline.