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Silver: Return to Treasure Island

By: Andrew Motion
Narrated by: David Tennant
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About this listen

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

July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Late one night, a mysterious girl named Natty arrives with a request from her father, Long John Silver. Aged and weak, but still possessing a strange power, the pirate proposes that Young Jim and Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flint's hidden bounty, left behind many years before...

Featuring a cast of noble seamen, murderous pirates, and stories of love, valour and terrible cruelty, Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island - one of the greatest adventure stories ever told - and a work of extraordinary authenticity and imaginative power.

©2012 Andrew Motion (P)2012 W.F. Howes Ltd Fiction Historical Fiction Pirate

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Critic reviews

"It whips along like a tea clipper in a fair breeze." ( The Express)
"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)
"David Tennant, a Scot like R L Stevenson, makes a truly splendid narrator. A great adventure story for nine to 90-year olds!" (Rachel Redford, The Oldie)
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A very poor story which was brilliantly read. I would have given up early on had it been otherwise.

Disappointing

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As with all performances by David Tennant, this one was brilliant too, and a joy to listen to. However, the story was a let-down I'm afraid, I got bored which is the first time this happened when listening to a Tennant audio book. You might like it, of course, but I didn't. Probably because I wasn't a Stevenson fan in the first place, thus I wouldn't be enamoured with Motion's re-imagining.

Great performance but not a gripping story

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This follow-up novel is an astonishing and welcome achievement. It then goes one better to have its audio-book performed by an intelligent and sensitive person (David Tennant) who can breathe life into any description, thought, action or character. Some might say there is not action enough, but I disagree. What it also adds in the thoughts of the main character which is fully involving. Often as not drama and tension are in thoughts not plot. It is gripping novel throughout. Andrew Motion is also a poet and this means his attention to language and description is beyond the capacity of so many plot-novelists. Many times I wanted to make a note in my hardcopy of the novel to return to jewels of description. The book is well crafted in another way, in that its chapter lengths are well judged and this aids the narrative flow. I find nothing about the book that is niggling. I'm pleased that my speculative purchase was so rewarding. Just describing the novel to others has created a chain of readers for the hardback.

An Excellent Novel Brilliantly Performed

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i loved the reading of this book. talented, brought the characters and story alive to the listener

well read, hypnotic. exciting adventure

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I love the original story and this sequel was really well written. Good story and great characters. David Tennant is superb and his different accents and characters are amazing.

Fabulous narration

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