"I'm going to need fat robots, big, fat robots."
Stanley Russell had not known love or loss until she risked loosing her kind grandfather Gregory Cockle.
Her cosy life is shattered when her learns that snooty ghosts plan to destroy Gregory and she knows she has to stop them or her heart will die.
At nine, the detective from Falmouth is both hilarious and cute. But will it be enough to protect Gregory?
She goes to a funeral in Madrid where she acquires some fat robots and sausages. It finally seems that she will be able to stop the ghosts that want to destroy Gregory.
However, when Gregory calls, begging her to come home, Stanley is forced to decide what is more important: stopping the snooty ghosts that destroy each other, or preserving her relationship with her grandfather?
Thehway delivers a brave and poignant story that explores the love between a detective and her grandfather.