Millions. Frank Cottrell Boyce. Harper Collins, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 18 Reviews. It was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands /5(18). “Millions” is a children’s novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce in which brothers Damian and Anthony Cunningham come into possession nearly two hundred thirty-thousand pounds stirling just before England’s transition to the euro on Decem. · Millions (which was first conceived as a film directed by Danny Boyle of Trainspotting fame) is probably Cottrell Boyce’s most obviously Catholic book. Damian, the Year Five narrator, is obsessed with saints and sees them at regular intervals throughout the bltadwin.ru: Roy Peachey.
by Frank Cottrell Boyce ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, This amusing story of a boy who finds a fortune in cash tackles the moral dilemmas he faces while maintaining a gentle comic narrative. Fifth-grader Damian becomes obsessed with saints after the death of his mother. When a bag of money falls off a train near his house, he thinks it's. Publisher's Summary. It was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands right at Damian's feet. Suddenly, the Cunningham brothers are rich. Very rich. They can buy anything they want. There's just one problem: they have only 17 days to spend all the money before it becomes worthless. Furthermore, Millions bears resemblance to lots of other stories, as they are all based on a folk tale and then modernized. This is what Frank Cottrell Boyce told me when I heard him speak.
Furthermore, Millions bears resemblance to lots of other stories, as they are all based on a folk tale and then modernized. This is what Frank Cottrell Boyce told me when I heard him speak. Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor. In addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction, winning the Carnegie Medal for his debut, Millions, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name. Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Cosmic, Framed, and Millions, the last of which was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle.
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