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Friday 16th, Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th August - Northampton Balloon Festival Turned away by his own son, Cessie’s long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most – a nursing home called Shangri-La. So when he is sent off to a home for the elderly, she helps him escape. Former Childrens Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master story teller with this tale of strife and loss in World War II. A past that comes to him only in glimpses a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II Turned away by his own son, Cessie's long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most - a nursing home called Shangri-La. Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd June - Hertfordshire Steam Weekend