Lyra is a small wild orphan who lives in Jordan College, in another world Oxford, where she is looked after by the Master, the Staff and the Scholars. She plays with Roger, the kitchen boy, and roams the rooftops and attics. She is a plain and ordinary girl until one afternoon, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, decide to enter the Scholar's meeting room unseen, and on their own. Suddenly, Lyra's life is flipped upside-down.
(Eloise May - bwl 31 September 2005 ) |
