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Mother's Day competition

Ahead of Mother's Day on 11th March, we've teamed up with HarperCollins to give you the chance to win Hotel Chocolat's Chocolate Cabinet with prosecco worth £68, a gorgeous bouquet of Country Garden hand-tied flowers from Interflora worth £33 and a bundle of three books: Coming Home by Fern Britton, The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan and Mother's Day on Coronation Street by Maggie Sullivan. Three runners-up will also receive their very own book bundle.

Coming Home is Fern Britton's heart-warming new novel. When Ella’s beloved grandmother dies, she comes back to the beautiful Cornish coast to heal her heart. There she finds her home again and discovers a new life, and new love... But she also opens a treasure trove of secrets. Sennen left Cornwall a young single mum but unable to cope. She left her children, her family and part of her. She’s spent the years hiding from her past, hiding from herself. Now it’s time to come back. To Cornwall. To face her mistakes. To pray for forgiveness. To hope for a future with her daughter.

Uplifting and moving, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir explores how a village can endure the onslaught of war, how monumental history affects small lives and how survival is as much about friendship as it is about courage.

Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury, change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, and when the vicar decides to close the choir until the men return, all seems lost. But coming together in song is just what the women of Chilbury need in these dark hours, and they are ready to sing. With a little fighting spirit and the arrival of a new musical resident, Miss Primrose Trent, the choir is reborn. For one villager though, the choir is the perfect cover to destroy Chilbury’s new-found harmony.

Mother's Day on Coronation Street is full of the soap's trademark humour and warmth. 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.

All three books will be published in February 2018 by HarperCollins.