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Saving Neverland is a fantasy-adventure children's book by Scottish writer Abi Elphinstone. It was published on 5th January, 2023.

Overview[]

Number 14 Darlington Road, looks like a perfectly ordinary townhouse - at first glance, anyway, but magic is good at hiding . . . when it's waiting for the right person to discover it . . .
Martha Pennydrop is ten, and desperate to grow up. But growing up is a tricky business. It means turning your back on imagination, fun and magic, because those were the things that led to the Terrible Day when something awful nearly happened to Martha's younger brother, Scruff, which would have been All Her Fault.
But when Martha and Scruff discover a drawer full of mysterious gold dust in the bedroom of their new house - along with a window that's seemingly impossible to close - it's the start of an incredible adventure to a magical world: Neverland! The Pennydrop's new house used to belong to another family - the Darlings - who once visited this world themselves. Now Peter Pan is back, and in need of their help. Neverland is in the icy grip of a terrible curse - cast long ago by Captain Hook. And only Martha and Scruff can save it . . .
A reluctant Martha and excited Scruff are swept off to Neverland and into the company of the Lost Kids. But when Scruff is kidnapped, Martha must rediscover all the imagination, magic and belief she has buried deep inside herself for so long, to save him - and Neverland itself.[1]

Characters[]

  • Peter Pan - appears around Martha's age but likely much older with tousled blond hair and impossibly green eyes. He currently dresses in shorts and a waistcoat made of silver-patterned leaves, which are also one of his calling cards that he's been visiting 14 Darlington Road prior to current events. In this version instead of leaving behind a younger brother, he left behind a younger sister with his parents.
  • Muddle - Peter Pan's current fairy; who used to come and visit Scruff at night, plump with golden wings (but her wing tips are grey from gradually losing her magic to Hook's curse) and coppery hair, dressed in gown made of snowdrops, she is fluent and understands all human languages but hates to speak any of them. She is also fluent in three languages of nature; Chime, Tremblebark and Feathertongue allowing her to communicate with all types of trees and birds not just her own kind. She is a skilled poet making up odes, sonnets and ballads about all things to do with Neverland.
  • Martha Pennydrop - aged ten she is main carer for her younger brother since their mother left them (for backpacking in Thailand to never return). Since that terrible day when she misplaced his inhaler while he was having an asthma attack leading to his hospitalization (while left fighting for his life) she no longer does childish things with her brother nor does she seem to encourage it. She used to be a gymnast and is very acrobatic and also shares her brother's chestnut brown eyes, dark tangled hair and smattering of freckles although only her brother has a freckled nose and big eyes.
  • Scruff Pennydrop - aged seven born two months early, leaving him with slightly underdeveloped lungs making him asthmatic. Since his real name hasn't been used in so long no one really knows what it is, it might've been Willbur but that was also a name for their first guinea pig. He has a love of animals and used to help out the keepers at the local animal sanctuary. He has a way with them and is able to make them relax in fact around animals his calm and quiet when compared with people (he maybe gifted in Feathertongue allowing him to communicate with birds). From his sister he has gradually learnt to regulate his breathing in further of any future asthma attacks.
  • Mr Pennydrop - Martha and Scruff's single father, who has lately thrown himself into his work since heading up the removal company he works for, spending time shut up in his study. It is implied he once went to Neverland himself or a place very much like it (and has a noticeable mustache).
  • Fluffington - family pet, a Norwegian Forest cat, he is very intelligent able to nudge on taps, shut doors with his tail or close curtains with his teeth (he is also not far off the size of a fox with shaggy brown fur).
  • Turnip - Eldest of the Lost Kids
  • Wombok - Middle of the Lost Kids
  • Pickle - Youngest of the Lost Kids
  • Ice-King -
  • Captain Hook -
  • Armageddon the woolly mammoth
  • Last Never Bird

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