Framed (Cottrell-Boyce novel)

Framed is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year,[1][2] and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[3] It was also on the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2007.[4]

First edition (publ. HarperCollins)

The novel takes its setting from a true-life event, when the Manod (Cwt-y-Bugail) quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog was used to store art treasures from the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery during World War II.

Summary

Framed, set in North Wales, is the story of how paintings moved from the National Gallery in London affect the town of Manod.

It follows Dylan the only male resident of the Welsh village of Manod and how the moving of paintings from the London's National Gallery into the quarry of the mountain in the town, leads to an attempted heist.

Television film adaptation

Framed was produced as an adult television film by the BBC, starring Trevor Eve and Eve Myles, and adapted by the author.[5] It was first shown on 31 August 2009.[6]

Footnotes
  1. The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
  2. Costa Book Awards
  3. Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006
  4. Blue Peter Book Awards 2007
  5. BBC Press release
  6. BBC website with photos


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