The Pumpkin Coach

<p><b><i>Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will love this beautifully captivating romantic saga from </i></b><b><i>multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis</i></b><b><i>. </i></b><br><br><b><u>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING!</u></b><br><b>'I could not get over how beautifully written this book is' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Highly recommend this book' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'A page-turner' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Could not put it down! -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Don't miss this one' </b><b>-- ***** Reader review</b><br><br><b>*******************************************************************************************************</b><br><br><b>YOUR DESTINY CAN BE SHAPED BY THE MOST UNLIKELY OF THINGS...</b><br><br>For <b>Alice Pettiford</b>, living near <b>Gloucester</b> in the late <b>1940s</b>, leaving school for a job as a railway secretary makes perfect sense: most of her family have worked for the railway over the years.<br><br>What Alice does not expect is that she would fall in love with <b>Joe Adair</b>, a colleague, almost as soon as she meets him. But Joe has to go overseas on National Service, and in the meanwhile her friend <b>Hester's</b> brother, the enigmatic <b>Valentine</b>, finds that his fondness for Alice is deepening into something much stronger.<br><br>When he and Alice discover an old railway coach, long abandoned, hidden in a clearing in the <b>Forest of Dean</b>, 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 <b>'the pumpkin coach'</b>. <b>Now her own destiny will also be shaped by this enchanted refuge.</b></p>