The places were laid with gold, hot silver and the fourteen seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions. Lyra reached the dais and looked back at the open kitchen door and, seeing no one, stepped up beside the high table. Portraits of former Masters hung high up in the gloom along the walls. The three great tables that ran the length of the Hall were laid already, the silver and the glass catching what little light there was, and the long benches were pulled out ready for the guests. Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. The destiny that awaits her will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world… When Lyra is given the strange and secret alethiometer, she begins an extraordinary journey that will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where with-clans reign and ice-bears fight. There are worlds beyond our own – and the compass will show the way. I finished my last library book at the start of the week and knew I wouldn’t be able to get to the library to get any more until the weekend so I picked up Northern Lights. I never got round to reading it until now. I took Northern Lights because I’d heard good things about it. Every now and again a work colleague gives my mother a pile of books and we take what we want. GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / FANTASY FICTION TITLE: HIS DARK MATERIALS: NORTHERN LIGHTS
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