The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

Not far from Oxford, on the banks of the Thames, lives a simple eleven-year-old boy named Malcolm Polstead.

He helps his parents, who run a pub, the nuns of a women’s monastery on the far side of the river—and he really wants to attend a real school.

One day, Malcolm learns that an unusual guest has appeared in the monastery. It’s a little girl. Her name is Lyra Belacqua…