THE BOOK BEHIND
THE BBC SERIES ‘HIS DARK
MATERIALS’
The
third volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking HIS DARK MATERIALS
trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO television
series starring Ruth Wilson, Dafne Keen and James McAvoy.
“We're going to the land of the dead and
we're going to come back.”
Will and Lyra, whose
fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have
been violently separated.
But they must find each other,
for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been –
and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned…
The first series was the most-watched new British show in five
years - and peaked at 7.2 million viewers. It received a 5-star
review from Lucy Mangan in The Guardian: "a riveting realisation
of Philip Pullman's magic".
HIS DARK MATERIALS is one of the most popular and successful children's
series of all time.
