Edinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen, Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no conventional medic and surgically implants a cuckoo-clock into his chest. Little Jack grows up different to other children: every day begins with a daily wind-up. At school he is bullied for his ‘ticking’, but Dr Madeleine reminds him he must resist strong emotion: anger is far too dangerous for his cuckoo-clock heart. So when the beautiful young street-singer, Miss Acacia, appears – pursued by Joe, the school bully – Jack is in danger of more than just falling in love…he is putting his life on the line …. from the book La mécanique du cœur (English version The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart).
Luc Besson has optioned the story to be made into an animated feature film that Malzieu would co-direct. EuropaCorp has just acquired the rights for the cinema adaptation of ‘La Mécanique du Cœur , a novel published by Flammarion. This agreement concerns a 3D animated film. The English version of the book The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart is now available in the United Kingdom and is expected to be released in the United States March 2010.
The ending of the story …. sad, but true.
My jouney too is ending soon.