The Pumpkin Coach

✍ Scribed by Susan Sallis

• Book ID: 112249375
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 204 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781446486030
• ASIN: B004XIVPWC

✦ Synopsis

YOUR DESTINY CAN BE SHAPED BY THE MOST UNLIKELY OF THINGS...
For Alice Pettiford , living near Gloucester in the late 1940s , leaving school for a job as a railway secretary makes perfect most of her family have worked for the railway over the years.
What Alice does not expect is that she would fall in love with Joe Adair , a colleague, almost as soon as she meets him. But Joe has to go overseas on National Service, and in the meanwhile her friend Hester's brother, the enigmatic Valentine , finds that his fondness for Alice is deepening into something much stronger.
When he and Alice discover an old railway coach, long abandoned, hidden in a clearing in the Forest of Dean , Alice realises that it has been a very special, magical place. What she doesn't know is that the coach has played a secret part in the history of Joe's family, and that Joe's mother named it 'the pumpkin coach' . Now her own destiny will also be shaped by this enchanted refuge..M.F