His Dark Materials

Author

Philip Pullman

Overview

A twelve year old girl with an extraordinary task on her shoulders: she must save the world by commiting the original sin, and in doing that, betray the one she most loves. And, to add insult to injury, her mother runs a child-abusing sector of the all-powerful church, and her father is in league with angels from another world. Will Parry is desperately trying to find his father, who, with his departure, made his mother sick with grief. A thirteen year old boy who bears an awful burden, who must assist and be assisted by a strange, fiery girl from another world.