- Published: 1 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781409028642
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
Silver
Return to Treasure Island: Young Adult Edition
- Published: 1 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781409028642
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
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.
Ian Sansom, The Guardian
Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic
Observer
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.
Ian Thomson, Financial Times
A solid adventure yarn, full of ghostly echoes of Stevenson, with a denser tropical atmosphere and an even more palpable sense of evil
TLS
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.
Emma Lee-Potter, Daily Express
Andrew Motion brings lyricism but, more importantly, rollicking adventure to this sequel to Treasure Island
Mail on Sunday
Beautifully written and genuinely exciting... Motion’s novel stays true to Stevenson’s original... Outstanding.
Emma Lee-Potter, author of House With No Name
Deeply pleasing and convivial
Guardian
Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson … A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original
The Sunday Times
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.
Adam Lively, Sunday Times
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.
Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
Fascinating and richly colourful
Herald
Gripping
Daily Mail
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.
Daisy Hay, The Observer
His voice is unlike any other
New Statesman
Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children’s novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling
The Times
Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children's novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling
John Sutherland, The Times
Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them
Guardian
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
Philip Womack, Literary Review
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.
Alan Taylor, Herald
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
GQ
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
Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror
This is a pacey tale with an appropriately feisty young heroine for modern readers
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
Vastly entertaining
Scotsman