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They loved the story and demanded more, forcing their father to work on the manuscript before and after work and in his lunch hour.Īs well as selling the film rights, Woodall has been tipped to enjoy success at the top of Britain's book bestseller lists. 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. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.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. Still, given the compelling plot of "One for Sorrow" in particular, one can understand why Disney has optioned the novel "in a million-dollar deal." It should make a wonderful Disney feature-length cartoon, suitably sanitized.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Even the good birds execute summarily and employ mass murder. Nor, with its scenes of defecation, disembowelment and magpie rape, does it have much in common with The Lord of the Rings. press, this avian fantasy lacks the depth of that modern animal classic, Watership Down. Kirrick proves that one brave little bird can make a big difference against "planned systematic genocide." The second section, "Two for Joy," allows Kirrick's mate, Portia, to prove her mettle. A wise old owl, Tomar, asks plucky young Kirrick-evidently the sole robin to survive the holocaust-to undertake three dangerous journeys in order to enlist the aid of feathered allies.

Magpies, under the dictatorship of the treacherous Slyekin, have ruthlessly wiped out many bird species.

At the start of "One for Sorrow," the opening half of British author Woodall's savage first novel, Birddom's very existence is threatened.