![]() The bankruptcy of her friend’s father who is in the rose trade is a warning of major trouble and the murder of a botanist Rodderick Hassall has the world in an uproar. Lyra still uses that mysterious instrument, the alethiometer, to find out information and has started to use a new and radical way of manipulating it. This was once thought impossible but their parting is an essential ingredient in this story. They are capable of traveling apart from each other and do so regularly. She is 20 and is in a melancholic disposition because she and her daemon Pan have fallen out and there is no trust between them. It has been ten years since Lyra returned from the land of the dead in The Subtle Knife from the His Dark Materials series. This is a superb novel for lovers of fantasy, of philosophy, of mystery, of adventure and those interested in the meaning and origin of life. ![]() The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman. ![]()
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