The Beautiful Savage

A new novel by Philip Pullman, author of the famous “His Dark Materials”/“The Golden Compass.”

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 an inn, the nuns of a convent on the other side of the river, and he very much wants to study at a real school.

One day, Malcolm learns that there is an unusual guest at the convent. It’s a little girl. Her name is Lyra Belacqua…