![]() The thing I loved most about this novel is that so much happens in it, and it’s basically climax after climax. I’ve been ogling a gorgeous box set on the Book Depository, but my bank account won’t allow me to buy it for a while yet, I’m afraid… Apparently, it’s a very well-known trilogy (shame on me) and I can see why! I loved Northern Lights, and really want to read the rest of the trilogy as well. I had to read this novel for one of my courses, and hadn’t really heard about it before that. I’ve read the novel as Northern Lights, and this is also the name Philip Pullman gave the book, so that’s the name I’m sticking with! ![]() In order to survive at all, she must leave her childhood behind and venture where no one has gone before – beyond the Northern Lights.Ĭonfusingly, this novel, which is the first one in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, has two names: in the United Kingdom it’s called Northern Lights, while in the United States and some other countries it’s called The Golden Compass. Impelled at first by her own curiosity, but soon pursued by appalling dangers, Lyra is drawn into a savage struggle among the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic, where a scientific research station is carrying out experiments too horrible to speak about. One day her uncle, Lord Asriel, an experimental theologian and explorer, arrives with terrifying news from the north. ![]() Twelve-year-old Lyra Belacqua lives unparented and half-wild among the scholars of Jordan College. ![]()
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