Millions
Author Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Story
Brothers Damian and Anthony accidentally get caught up in a train robbery gone wrong and find themselves owners of a huge bag of money. Damian believes the cash is a gift from God and must be used for good but Anthony has other ideas. With only seventeen days until the Euro replaces the Pound they must spend it fast. End world poverty? Buy a lot of pizza? Meanwhile, the crooks who tried to rob the train are looking for their loot and closing in.
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Why we chose it
Millions is both very funny and very moving. The story is seen through the eyes of Damian, who has an obsession with the lives of the saints, many of whom visit him as he struggles with missing his dead mother and trying to do good in the world.
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First published
2004, MacMillan, UK
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In this book, Damian and Anthony are struggling with life, with a dead mother and bullies. But when a bag of money supposedly 'falls' out of the sky, they suddenly find their life changed. But there's a catch. They only have 17 days to spend it. But what to spend it on...