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Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children's novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling

Gripping

Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson … A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original

Motion's book is sensitive and porous. It fits seamlessly into the groove left by its parent, and yet is also something that is languidly original. The potency of the story must win out: Treasure Island is 'accursed', and young Jim, too, must suffer hardship and loss. Though the book ends with a powerful affirmation, there is much uncertainty that points to more. For which I, for one, fervently hope

Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them

The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers...Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island and a work of extraordinary authenticity

Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children’s novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling

A solid adventure yarn, full of ghostly echoes of Stevenson, with a denser tropical atmosphere and an even more palpable sense of evil

There are sequels and prequels aplenty, but this follow-up to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure island by the former Poet Laureate reeks of authenticity, cunning, intrigue, suspense and adventure.It’s brilliant, and for all ages

He reinvents Stevenson’s world to reveal its dark underside, illuminating both its mysterious beauty and its grim immortality.Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic.

Silver is a deeply pleasing and convivial book… As with Treasure Island, Silver is left open to the possibility of its own sequel, and surely no one would wish Motion to swallow the anchor. All aboard! All aboard! All aboard that's coming aboard.

Silver…captures something of the old magic. The thrilling flight across moor and heather that Henry James admired in Kidnapped.... finds expression in Silver’s action scenes set amid Caribbean waters.

Beautifully written and genuinely exciting... Motion’s novel stays true to Stevenson’s original... Outstanding.

Emma Lee-Potter, author of House With No Name

Silver’s plot twists and turns and introduces elements beyond even Stevenson’s imagination. The result is a fascinating and richly coloured novel that can be read by children with an appetite for adventure and adults who will relish reliving the glory days of youth.

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson is straight out of this classic adventure-story mould… A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original.

A thrilling follow-up to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island...Silver is a novel that will appeal to readers of all ages. Beautifully written and genuinely exciting...Best of all, Motion’s novel stays true to Stevenson’s original tale while adding an extra dimension.

Elegant, thrilling sequel...The plot is gripping, a mixture of high adventure, low cunning and desperation...Motion’s prose vivid and glowingly poetic, is a brilliant counterpoint to the fascinating action.

This is a pacey tale with an appropriately feisty young heroine for modern readers

Andrew Motion brings lyricism but, more importantly, rollicking adventure to this sequel to Treasure Island

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Think of the fortune waiting for you… 
 
July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver’s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. 
 
The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. 
 
Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was…

The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers.

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He began his career teaching English at the University of Hull. He has also been Editor of the Poetry Review, Editorial Director of Chatto &amp; Windus, Poet Laureate, co-founded the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in 2009. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

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Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children's novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling

Deeply pleasing and convivial

Vastly entertaining

Gripping

Fascinating and richly colourful

Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson … A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original

His voice is unlike any other

Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them

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