Cessie lives with her family were there are no pictures of her grandfather and she doesn't know what he looks like. A trampy looking man ends up on their doorstep who happens to be her grandfather she just doesn't know it yet.Cessie had been looking out her window all morning and this man was leaning against a lamppost staring at her she had be calling her mum to come over to look at him, she wouldn’t come over to see why he was staring at Cassie, soon enough she came over she told Cassie to stop staring at him. Her mum said he looked like a tramp. Later on the doorbell rings Cassie goes to answer the door and on the doorstep was the trampy old man who happens to be her grandfather but just doesn’t know it yet.
He comes in because he thinks that his son lives there because Cessie’s dad has just got a new job working in a radio station and hears his name Arthur Stephens. He hasn’t seen his son, Cessie’s dad since he was five years old. When Grandfather a younger Arthur used to call him Popsicle and ever since everyone has called him that.Cessie’s Grandfather had a stroke in the kitchen as mum and Popsicle were talking to each other about Arthur. He recovered but he had lost his memory. Cessie tries to help him regain his memory all he remembers vaguely is a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, and a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War Two.
Popsicle was taken to a nursing home. They took the residents on a boat trip from Shangri-La on his lifeboat across the Channel to Dunkirk were ghosts were laid to rest. When they got back to the port Popsicle and Arthur talked about what has happened in their life. Arthur decides to put Popsicle into a nursing home and Cessie is desperate to get him out. Cessie went looking for his home to find out that he has been living in an old lifeboat called Lucie Alice.
I really enjoyed this book because it's one of those books which you think 'whats going to happen next', so you just can't stop.
By Harriett Browne
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