![]() ![]() It has been two years since the war and Lyra is now fifteen years old. In Lyra‘s world, she always has her demon, Pentalimon, and we meet them again sitting on the roof of the Jordan College. ![]() She met Will and they went through the land of the dead together, until at the end of ‘His Dark Materials’, they returned to their own worlds with a promise to meet each other in spirit at least once a year. ![]() Just to re-capture the background, Lyra Belaqua was a bright twelve-year-old child living at Jordan college, Oxford from where her destiny took her to travel to North Pole of her world, making friends with Polar bears, Witches and Gyptians on the way, until she stepped through to other worlds. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not they might be connected to stories that haven’t appeared yet. This book contains a story and several other things. Published as a beautiful cloth covered collector’s edition book by Random House, Lyra’s Oxford contains a short story called ‘Lyra and the Birds’, a pull-out map and a few other things like advertisements for books and travel catalogs, a postcard written by Dr Mary Malone, a brochure for cruise ship Zenobia, etc. This passage describes the world created by Philip Pullman in his fantastic trilogy “ His Dark materials” so succinctly, it makes a perfect opening for this short story set in the magical Oxford where Lyra has come back to live after the war ended at end of “ The Amber Spyglass“. Partridge India Published: (10 January 2017) ![]()
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