![]() ![]() Woodall would read the early pages to his sons, Dave, then six, and Chris, nine, before bedtime. "It is a wonderful feeling, just overwhelming." "I am like a rabbit in the headlights," the 47-year-old Woodall said. Its promoters have compared it to Watership Down, the classic children's story by English novelist Richard Adams. His sweeping story centres on a lone robin's fight to save a world called Birddom from hordes of evil magpies. It really only started as a bedtime story and the boys wanting it night after night made it develop so much." "I don't think I could possibly get used to this, it's just skyrocketed beyond all expectations but it's wonderful," he said. Woodall admits he is overwhelmed by his new-found fame and fortune. ![]() It is generating the sort of hype normally reserved for big names like Harry Potter author JK Rowling. A British supermarket manager who wrote a fairytale as a bedtime story for his children has sold the film rights to the Walt Disney company for $1 million.Īfter 11 years of writing and more than 30 rejections from publishers, Clive Woodall's novel, One for Sorrow: Two for Joy, has been published in London. ![]()
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