The Book Of Dust 3 : The Rose Field

‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost.

Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . .