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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