![]() Although her interest is aroused, it’s not until one of her friends is taken by the notorious, child-snatching Gobblers, that Lyra is drawn into the most fantastic quest. ![]() When Lyra eavesdrops on an important college meeting involving her uncle, the brusque Lord Asriel, she learns something of ‘dust’, a mysterious and little understood substance that is somehow intrinsic to the functioning of her world, and which various sinister bodies have a vested interest in. Lyra is a boisterous and feisty child, who is most at home scaling the roofs of the great college where she resides, or fighting with children from the town. Children’s daemons are able to change shape at will until they reach adulthood when they settle on a particular form, one that best represents their human’s character. In this universe all humans are accompanied by daemons, small animal familiars that represent their human’s soul. ![]() Here one is introduced to Lyra Bellacqua, a young girl estranged from her parents, and being brought up in the scholarly atmosphere of Jordan College, Oxford in an alternate universe. Northern Lights (1995), published as The Golden Compass in some territories, is the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. ![]()
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