![]() ![]() ![]() Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have seen in an earlier part of Lyra’s story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world.” It’s a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognise, and characters they’ve met before. It doesn’t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. In fact, The Book of Dust is… an ‘equel’. “So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It’s neither. This volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyra’s life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her 20 years later. I’ve always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College and, in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when she’s grown up. Events involving her open the first chapter, and will close the last. “The first thing to say is that Lyra is at the centre of the story. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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