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The Subtle Knife
The second book in the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
"The most ambitious work since Lord of the Rings... as intellectually thrilling as it is magnificently written," Amanda Craig, The New Statesman
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Blurb Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance. Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion- a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs. But the world of Cittągazze is a strange and unsettling place. Deadly, soul- eating Spectres stalk its streets, while high above, the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. And in the mysterious Torre degli Angeli lurks Cittągazze's most important secret- an object which people from many worlds would kill to possess... |
Praises
"... a genuine masterpiece of intelligent, imaginative storytelling," Terence Blacker, The Mail on Sunday
"... a tour de force of cosmic adventure, far outstripping the many modern imitators of Tolkien, and matching the quality of the master himself," William Waldegrave, The Week
"... quite outstanding... all we can do is to keep reading in hope that it will never end," The Scotsman
