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 railway secretary make perfect sense. Her family have long been "railway servants," and her best friend Hester's father will be working closely with her. — What Alice has not expected is that she will fall in love with Joe Adair, a colleague, alm... more »ost as soon as she meets him. But Joe has to go overseas on National Service, and in the meantime Hester's brother, the 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 doesn't know is that the coach has played a secret part in Joe's family history, and Joe's mother named it "the pumpkin coach." Now her own destiny will also be shaped by this enchanted refuge.« less