"Framed"

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Jason Hughes did an "immense" job reading this Frank Cottrell Boyce novel. The story is cute and clever and I like it even better than "Millions".

• Dad got up, went to the trailer and came back with a kettle of boiling water. He poured the water in the sea and said, "Dylan, come and test it. Tell me if it's all right or does it need a bit more?"
• Even Nice Tom's mam's diddy Daihatsu Copen, which is about the size of a marshmallow so you need tweezers to fix it.
• "If I had not knitted him a balaclava, he might never have been seduced into criminality."
• I mean, how many towns have got an inside-out mountain at the end of the High Street?
• (After Lester and his shiny shoes came to town:) So we knew that row was over, which was nice. Then we all watched the CCTV tape one more time for luck.
• So driving into the sun was like-well, imagine if you opened a cupboard in your kitchen and found a beach.
• "Isn't that what Art is about? Rescuing Beauty from the ravages of Time. To save one moment from eternal silence."
• Then Mom hugged me so tight, I thought she was going to behead me.
• The massed umbrellas of Manod can been seen snaking up and down the whole length of the Blaenau Road like a psychedelic boa constrictor.
• We don't have giraffes in Wales, but we do have Acres of Tires. ... the Meadow of Retreads ...
• And cobwebs that were so thick they looked like washing hanging out to dry.
• At the time it was the custom for people with interesting faces to wait on the Spanish Steps in the hope that artists would hire them as models.