His dream is to become a full-time writer and to build a home in Ireland, where he can indulge his passions of playing the guitar, writing and bird-watching.Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road.
He is writing another Birddom epic and is still working part-time at the supermarket, where he has become something of a celebrity. Woodall, from Cambridgeshire, eastern England, has been writing since he was 10, churning out more than 1 million words and 30 short stories. "It is only a matter of time before Clive Woodall becomes a household name."
"It has a timeless beauty and a haunting morality," Roddam said. Roddam, who directed the rock opera film Quadrophenia, pitched the film to Disney during a trip to the United States last year. Woodall will share the Disney windfall with film director Franc Roddam, who set up a firm to publish the book after a recommendation from his bank manager, who works with the author's wife, Tricia, 41. The book's title is taken from the first line of an old English folk rhyme which linked sightings of magpies to various good and bad omens. The author was inspired by the black and white magpies he saw picking at dead animals on his drive to work. 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. 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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