It’s been twenty years since the day Lord Azriel left the baby Lyra at the gates of Jordan College, entrusting her care to the university. And nearly ten years have passed since readers said goodbye to Lyra and Will on the pages of “The Amber Spyglass,” which concluded the trilogy “His Dark Materials.”
Now Lyra is twenty. She is no longer a child, and the world that once seemed understandable and close to her is changing rapidly. Questions torment her—perhaps questions it would have been better not to seek answers to. But it is precisely for them that she sets off on a new journey—across all of Europe, toward a mysterious, harsh, and unpredictable East, where her life may change forever again.