Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1: now a major BBC TV series (English Edition)
<p><b>Now a major BBC series </b><br /><i><br />‘Without this child, we shall all die.’</i><br /><br />Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon, Pantalaimon, always by her side. <br /><br />But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle – a struggle born of stolen children, witch clans and armoured bears. <br /><br /><b>As she hurtles towards danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: she alone is destined to win, or to lose, the biggest battle imaginable.</b></p>