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For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school for a job as a railway secretary makes perfect sense. 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.

Embarking on a journey to Exmoor to meet the famous artist Robert Haussman, with an oddly assorted group of fellow-enthusiasts, Judith finds herself a prey to all sorts of irrational fears.Set in the Somerset countryside which Susan Sallis knows so well, this heartwarming novel shows how life, love and art cannot always meet happily together.

"There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the night of the raid on Coventry. Mum and Dad, Florrie and little May....ack was missing. He was one of those who had not come back from Dunkirk. And May had to promise to keep a terrible secret, a promise which affected the lives of all the survivors, until May herself was the only one left. eventy years later Daisy and Marcus, sixth formers in a Gloucestershire School, are given an A Level project on the bombing of Coventry in 1940.They go to talk to May, now living in sheltered accommodation nearby;a friendship is forged which bridges the gap between them.The two youngsters have their own problems, but as their lives unfold they become involved in the strange history of May's missing brother and of the promise, made all those years ago, which still has its repercussions today."

An idyllic summer ends in tragedy... Cornwall, 1960 - and a whole new world unfolds for young Connie Vickers as she holidays with her brand-new fiance William. But a strange encounter with a beautiful blond boy on the beach leads to a terrible tragedy, the consequences of which are to affect Connie and William for the rest of their lives.

Viv s marriage to David was not a conventional one, but when he died in an accident for which she blamed herself it was as if her whole world had collapsed around her. She escaped by running, mainly around the nearby lake, which was once a popular pla

Nell und ihre Cousins Edmund und Perry erleben eine besondere Zeit in Gloucestershire, wo sie gemeinsam aufwachsen. Als ein mysteriöser Fremder auftaucht, wird Nells Verbindung zur Vergangenheit und zu einem magischen Eisenbahnwagen im Wald enthüllt. Um glücklich zu werden, müssen sie die Geheimnisse des Waldes entdecken.

Jess Tavener lebt glücklich in Somerset, bis der Tod ihres Vaters und das Finden unbekannter Portraits aus seinem Nachlass ihre Welt erschüttern. Eine Zeichnung zeigt ihren Vater, eine andere eine unbekannte Person, und der Künstler ist ihr Mann Matt. Jess entdeckt dunkle Geheimnisse ihrer Familie und begibt sich auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit.

In 1943 two schoolgirls, Rachel and Meriel,best friends in the Gloucestershire city where they have grown up, amuse themselves by tracking down imaginary German spies. It all seems a harmless way of whiling away the long school holidays, until their game turns into a frightening reality, the consequences of which affect their whole lives.

Die Familien Pettiford und Ryecroft sind seit Generationen verbunden. Als Alice Pettiford im Büro arbeitet, beeinflusst sie ihren Cousin Valentine negativ, was die Beziehungen belastet. Alice verliert Hester aus den Augen und verliebt sich in ihren Kollegen Joe Adair, doch ihre Romanze endet abrupt durch Joes Militärzeit. Valentine hat ebenfalls Gefühle für Alice.