Booklocker.com Last train to margate, paperback/sally forrester

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At 50 years old Poppy was finally ready to leave London and embark upon a new adventure, the little seaside resort of Margate was calling.

Elderly Aunt Flora had offered her a home at rambling Lookout Retreat, and it was time for Poppy to mend all of her broken pieces.

When she noticed the small card in the window of the Madam Popoff Vintage Emporium informing the curious public, Part time help required.

Only special people need apply, Poppy is drawn into a world of wonder, magic and true healing.

As the clocks ticked on Poppy often asked herself, Who is Madam Popoff? Gypsy? Angel? Time Traveler? Gate Keeper?Later, reflecting upon her first year at the Madam Popoff Vintage Emporium, Poppy looked down at her own long slender fingers and her delicate hands -- working with Madam had taught her the importance of her hands.

She had learned to feel her way through life, discern stories and ownership just by touching the things that crossed Madam's threshold.

Poppy acknowledged that there's a silver thread that connects people, places, events and time.

She was also beginning to understand the mysteries of healing.

She knew in her heart that being in Margate had set her upon a path of healing herself, but more than this she was learning how she might be of assistance to others in distress.

Poppy had become privy to many stories: an exquisite art deco clutch bag decorated with beaded irises blowing in the wind connected her to the Margate lifeboat and the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk.

A little gold donkey brooch with a seed pearl eye connected her to the trenches, the futility and utter devastation of the First World War.

A faded, yet still jaunty, knitted Superman doll connected her to 1972 and a little boy suffering from severe spinal malformation.

His adventures with Superman helped him to live vicariously in a world outside the confines of a spinal cast.

An old Beatles album connected Poppy to The Royal School for Deaf Children, the 1963 Beatles performance in Margate,.