title: Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street
author:  Glenda Young 
description: GLENDA YOUNG is a writer and a Coronation Street lifelong fan. She hopes one day to work for Rita and Norris as the paper girl in the Kabin.
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  ##  [Copyright](part0003.html#copy)
  
  
  Published by HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 1 London Bridge Street
  
  
  London SE1 9GF
  
  
  [www.harpercollins.co.uk](http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins _Publishers_ 2019
  
  
  Coronation Street is an ITV Studios Production
  
  
  Copyright © ITV Ventures Limited 2018
  
  
  Cover design by Cliff Webb © HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 2019.
  
  
  Cover photograph © Stephen Searle/Alamy Stock Photo (Coronation Street);
  2ebill/Alamy Stock Photo (children on front cover); ©
  [Topfoto.co.uk](http://www.topfoto.co.uk) (women and children on back cover).
  
  
  Jean Alexander _Hilda Ogden archive photograph © ITV_ Rex / Shutterstock
  Maggie Sullivan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is a