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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