Victory
Susan Cooper
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552554152
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99

Victory

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Both swashbuckling and moving, no child should miss this book!

Two children cross an ocean, two hundred years apart. One is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, a present-day English girl transplanted from London to America, fighting a battle of her own against loss and loneliness.

This extraordinary time-shifting adventure tells the interwoven stories of Sam and Molly, linked by a mystery. Sam is a farm boy, press ganged to serve in the Royal Navy. In the dangerous world of a warship enduring the Napoleonic Wars, he meets both cruelty and kindness, and survives a fearsome battle whose echoes reach through the years to involve Molly as well. Like him, she has lost her childhood but will find her future, with help from a very unexpected source. Two lives joined forever by the touch of Nelson, the greatest sailor of all time.
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552554152
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper was born in Buckinghamshire, read English at Oxford and began her career as a reporter and feature-writer for the Sunday Times. She then married an American and moved to the United States. Her sequence of fantasy novels for young adults, The Dark Is Rising, has won numerous international awards, including the Newbery Medal, and has been translated into eleven languages. She has written a number of other books for children and adults, a Broadway play, and several films for television and the cinema. She has two children and lives in Fairfield, Connecticut. Susan is married to the Canadian actor Hume Cronyn.

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Praise for Victory

Susan Cooper shows great empathy for her characters . . . this is masterful historical writing which vividly brings the past to life

Publishing News

The emotional demands of contemporary family life are beautifully counter-pointed with the privations of early 19th century seafaring . . . An evocative novel

Lesley Agnew, The Bookseller

Meticulously researched and written with economy and sympathy

Amanda Craig, The Times

Themes of loss, displacement and - eventually - adjustment and acceptance link two very different narrative strands in this evocative novel . . . The historical background is meticulously researched but above all this is an engrossing story for children to enjoy

Kate Agnew, Guardian

Susan Cooper hits top form with Victory . . . A rousing yarn, crammed with enough accurate detail to keep any history teacher more than happy

Nick Tucker, Independent