Cliff Mcnish

The Silver Child (The Silver Sequence, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Silver Child is the first book in a fantasy trilogy, part 1 of The Silver Sequence.

'Spectacular and satisfying - I was left feeling exhilarated and hungry for more.' Philip Ardagh, The Guardian

'A genuinely original piece of writing, strongly imagined and well-written arresting fantasy.' Books for Keeps

From about halfway through the writing of The Scent of Magic I'd had the idea of exploring the theme of human evolution. What if children started to evolve into something radically different? What if children's eyes started to change? What if they became giants overnight? What if ... The result, given a twist of fantasy, flowed out very quickly once I'd decided on my main characters.

It concerns a group of children - six children - who are drawn to a deserted wind-swept wasteland called Coldharbour. The only things living in Coldharbour are a few seagulls and some well-fed rats living off the rubbish dumps. There is no food or shelter. The only other people there are groups of dangerous gang kids.



Nevertheless, the six children have to find a way to survive, and over time they discover that they also have amazing powers. They are, in fact, the first part of a defence of our world against a terrifying creature approaching from the stars, a creature I call the Roar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Doomspell Books
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232692537
• Artikelnr.: 75901246

Autorenporträt

Cliff McNish has written numerous novels for teenagers and children. His debut fantasy series - 'The Doomspell Trilogy' - hailed him as a 'great new voice in writing for children' (The Bookseller), and has been published in twenty-six languages worldwide. His multiple-award winning 'Breathe: A Ghost Story' was voted in May 2013 as one of the top 100 adult and children's novels of all time by The Schools Network of British Librarians.

Cliff actively works to promote creative writing, performing a variety of talks and workshops in schools, libraries, reading clubs and book festivals.

"I was born in Sunderland, a city in the north-east of England. I don't recall too much about my first 8 years of life other than I loved being outdoors especially in the woods near our house. I came home every night covered in scratches. My first real book memory is being given C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew by my English teacher, Mrs Baldwin. I loved that, and all the other Narnia books. So how did I become an author? As a parent I was used to making up short and funny stories for my daughter, Rachel. When she was about ten, however, she wanted a story about a really, really nasty witch. This time I put pen to paper and what started off as a tiny scrap of an idea got bigger and bigger and BIGGER. It became 'The Doomspell'. After I finished it, I continued my love affair with fantasy by creating The Silver Sequence which I still think is probably my best and definitely my most original work. Following that, I tried to scare everyone half to death with a couple of ghost novels - 'Breathe' and 'The Hunting Ground'. I could tell you more about myself, but the truth is that perhaps the biggest gift we can give anyone is our imagination and everything important I have to offer you about that is in the novels".