Millions

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Then there are problems other than the money, like Dorothy, whom the boys are convinced aims to replace their mother, whose death aches still. I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone because I think that it’s just very boring and that there’s no real climax in the entire story. Furthermore, we are caught in a ‘should they/ shouldn’t they’ moral dilemma of whether Damian and Anthony should hand in the money. Even with all the fun and twists that transpire as one grand scheme leads to the next, Boyce also conveys the message that, indeed, money can be a burden.

Damian is convinced it is a gift from God, and contemplates with his older brother Anthony the best way to spend it. Extremely funny and well written book about a boy who, following the death of his mother, has become fixated on saints.However, I personally found the sequencing of the invents a little confusing, with more and more problems rising in the plot where least expected. They think of two different suspects but eventually they find their money and end up with 20,345 Euros. While you are hearing your father’s words to be ‘excellent’, following the guidance of the saints, your brother is more of a real-estate baron, it seems…. Seventeen days until Euros, seventeen days to use up more than two hundred and thirty thousand pounds.

I rated this novel a 3 out of 5 because although the novel had a great message in it the story itself was confusing at times.It is good for a school novel study and also for anyone wanting a quick simple read during their free time. DAMIAN’S BROTHER IS DISOBEDIENT AND WASTES MONEY ON RUBBISH AND WHENEVER SOMEONE CATCHES HIM OR GETS SUSPICIOUS, HE SAY’S ,MY “MY MOM IS DEAD” (WHICH IS TRUE) TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE OR TO GET GIFTS. Being American, I wouldn't have been able to imagine the sound of the annoyed protagonist telling his older brother that his cardboard hideout isn't a den, but "an hermitage. Damian thinks it is a gift from God and needs to be spent doing good; Anthony, his brother, prefers to indulge his taste in extravagance and real estate!

However, the humour is pretty British, so if you don't get British humour you will just find it weird. The story started out very slow but after finding the money, the story became very fast and many events occurred over a short time which made it hard to pick up every little detail and most of the important aspects of the story were hinted at by those little details.

Overall, it is about a torn family who are grieving the death of Damian and Anthony's mum (we assume from cancer, but the book isn't clear on that). He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK.

It is an adaptation of his screenplay for the film Millions, although it was released six months before the film (September).This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton. Set in England just before British adoption of the euro (a fictional event) the story features two boys who must decide what to do with a windfall in expiring currency. The younger brother (and narrator) Damian tries his best to be excellent and to do good work every day.