Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Light Messages and Elizabeth Turnbull for believing in the Silverwoods and their world, and helping this book be the best it can be. I’m grateful to my family, and first readers. I appreciate everyone who read Silverwood, especially young people who came up to me again and again to tell me what they enjoyed about it. And I’d also like to take the opportunity to express appreciation to some of the people from whom I have drawn inspiration at various times in my life: Jacques Cousteau, Carl Sagan, Martina Navratilova, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, David Bowie—each of them pointed the way to a new place, in their own style.