Clay is a 2008 British

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 TV film drama directed by Andrew Gunn

Andrew Gunn

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 and starring Harry McEntire (Davie) and Ben Davies

Ben Davies

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 (Stephen Rose).

The screenplay

Screenplay

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 by Peter Tabern is based on the 1998 novel of the same name

Clay (novel)

Clay is a children's/young adult novel by David Almond, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.It was adapted for television in 2008, and aired on BBC One on March 30 2008....

 by David Almond

David Almond

David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

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Plot

1960, English provincial town. Impressionable Davie meets mysterious Stephen Rose, who lives in the house of a old Mary. Stephen Rose is committed to create from scrap materials - wood and clay - sculpture, which made so significantly that look almost lifelike. Stephen and Davie decides to revive the statuettes.