The Pumpkin Coach Author:Susan Sallis For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940's leaving school and taking a job as a railroad secretary makes perfect sense. Her family have long been 'railway servants' and her best friend,Hester's father will be working close with her. — What Alice has not expected is that she will fall in love with John Adair, a colleague, almos... more »t as soon as she meets him.But Joe has to go overseas on National Serviceand in the meantime Hester's brother, an enigmatic Valentine, finds that his fondness for Alice is deepening into something much stronger. When they discover a long abandoned railway coach hidden in a clearing in the Forest of Dean, Alice realizes that it is a very special, magical place.What she doesnt know is that the coach played a very special part in Joe's family history, and Joes mothernamed it "The Pumpkin Coach". Now her own destiny wwill be shaped by this romantic refuge.« less