![]() ![]() That may sound a little dry and, disappointingly, it often is. All three of them find themselves journeying across Europe, trying to get to the root of the Magisterium’s suspicious interest in rose-based pharmaceuticals. The two of them are the protagonists of this story, alongside Lyra’s dæmon Pantalaimon, who is off on his own adventure following a falling-out with Lyra. Lyra is now a 20-year-old undergraduate in Oxford, while her rescuer Malcolm Polstead, the young hero from La Belle Sauvage, is now a 31-year-old scholar-cum-secret agent. ![]() The Secret Commonwealthfinally links up the two elements of her story, and takes both forward. It’s been 16 years since we last caught up with Lyra Silvertongue in chronological order, in the short story Lyra’s Oxford, and two years since we flashed back to her as a baby, rescued from a mystical flood in The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage. ![]()
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