Along with Harry Potter, it is one of the standout reads of my childhood and, perhaps, my entire life. It's hard to believe, but I was ten years old when I first read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Could you bargain with fairies? Did they keep their promises? Malcolm tried to remember the fairy tales he knew. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm. Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. All are asking about the same thing: a girl-just a baby-named Lyra.
When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, Malcolm sees suspicious characters everywhere Lord Asriel, clearly on the run enforcement agents from the Magisterium an Egyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a dæmon. He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust-and the spy it was intended for finds him.
Malcolm and his dæmon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue. Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy. Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself.
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