Philip Pullman

In the second volume of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy – the follow-up to the multi-award winning His Dark Materials – Lyra is now a young woman. Her relationship with her daemon, Pantalaimon, has deteriorated; partly due to the effects of their separation in His Dark Materials, but now exacerbated by Pan’s ire at her perceived loss of imagination and her increasing reverence with the intellectual ‘reasonists’ of the day.

This graphic-novel treatment of the first leg of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is of French origin and is here translated back into the language of its source novel, i.e. English. These things happen in the children’s book publishing world.