![]() ![]() In their care is a tiny child, and in that child lies the fate of the future.Įleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford, on the banks of the River Thames which Malcolm navigates using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage.Īcross the River is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live in quiet seclusion. Set in the world so masterfully established by Philip Pullman in his trilogy His Dark Materials, La Belle Sauvage is a story of survival, where two children, with everything at stake, find themselves pursued by a terrifying evil. That is worth fighting for, don’t you agree? The right we have to speak and think freely… all that would be destroyed. “This is a winner that is going to bring a lot of pleasure to an ever-widening audience,” declared Waterstones Managing Director James Daunt, “and we could not be more pleased to play our part in its success.” Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017 ![]()
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