There aren't many books that can boast daemons, witches, armoured polar bears and possible other worlds quite a head-full to keep your imagination ticking over. There are enough twists and turns to keep the pace of the plot zooming along rather nicely and many interesting characters along the way. It is wonderfully enthralling from the first page and paints a world that you long to visit. Written as a childrens book but equally absorbing to any adult reader, I would not hesitate in recommending this first book in the Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
Part of that includes a great betrayal.' 'Who's going to betray her?' 'No, no, that's the saddest thing: she will be the betrayer, and the experience will be terrible'" 'Why should a distant theoligical riddle interest a healthy thoughtless child?' 'Because of what she must experience. "'If I talked to her about Dust? You don't think she'd listen to that?' The Librarian made a noise to indicate how unlikely he thought that was.'Why on earth should she?' he said. With a strange golden compass, known as an 'alethiometer' in her possesion, given to her by the Master of the College and the terrible disappearance of many local children at the hands of the 'Gobblers', it is the disappearance of her own best friend Roger and the one too many obsticles put in her way to find out more about 'Dust' that makes Lyra more sure than ever that these events are all linked somehow and the only way to find out more, and her friend, is to travel to the Northern Lights. Soon after is the appearance of Mrs Coulter, a cool and charasmatic woman who decides that Lyra should be versed in the etiquette of becoming a young woman and decides to take Lyra away from Jordan College but whom Lyra soons suspects has, together with her golden monkey daemon, an ulterior motive.
His goal is to find the source of 'Dust'and a possible gateway to another world. Together with her daemon Pantalaimon, Lyra's uncomplicated life is about to be turned upside down with an amazing and sometimes terrifying chain of events beginning with her uncle Lord Asriel's visit to the College to plan an expidition to the Northern Lights. This is the world of Lyra Belacqua, orphan and carefree child who lives with the musty old scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. Where huge zeppelins litter the skyline and a persons' soul is a living breathing animal companion or 'daemon'. Imagine a world that is as alike as it is disimilar to our own. The book was first published in 1995, a year in which the book also claimed the Carnegie Award. Northern Lights is the first part of Philip Pullman's acclaimed Dark Materials trilogy.
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