![]() Mr Woodall said he had been stunned by the book's success after Mr Roddam agreed to publish it. He said: "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy has a timeless beauty and a haunting morality which transcends age and society and which grips you from the opening pages." Mr Roddam, who directed the cult classic Quadrophenia and produced TV shows Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Masterchef and The Canterbury Tales, said he was captivated by the writing. ![]() "Franc and his wife loved it, invited us to London and said they wanted to do something with it." Mr Woodall said: "You need that sort of luck in trying to get something published. He was impressed - and so bought the rights, published the book himself and used his film contacts to pull off the Disney deal. The tale took off after Mr Woodall's second wife, Trish, passed it to colleagues at Barclays, who liked it so much it found its way into the hands of client and film-maker Franc Roddam. It is set in Birddom, a place where a lone robin is given the apparently impossible task of saving the world from the evil magpies. ![]() ![]() Mr Woodall, who lives in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, described the book as a "classic fairy story for all ages". ![]()
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