It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and Blue Peter Book Award.

The novel takes its setting from a true-life event, when the Manod (Cwt-y-Bugail) quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog was used to store art treasures from the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery during World War II.

Framed, set in North Wales, is the story of how paintings moved from the National Gallery in London affect the town of Manod.

It follows Dylan Hughes, the only male resident of the Welsh village of Manod, and how the moving of paintings from the London's National Gallery into the quarry of the mountain in the town, leads to an attempted heist.

[1] Both the book and audiobook received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly.