Publisher Description
This companion story to His Dark Materials is a chilling Gothic tale with a revealing glimpse of the iconic Mrs. Coulter--one of Philip Pullman's most enigmatic characters. In this darkly delicious tale, internationally acclaimed author Philip Pullman invites listeners to meet the mysterious girl who will one day become the sinister Mrs. Coulter. On a cold winter's night, two art collectors are settled before a fire in the senior common room of a college in Oxford, discussing two new unusual pieces--a portrait of a striking young woman and a bronze sculpture of a fearsome monkey. How could they imagine that they are about to be caught in the cross-fire of a story that has traveled across time and worlds… Watch the HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, an original series starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dafne Keen, Andrew Scott, and Ruth Wilson!
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About Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is the Whitbread Award–winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials series—The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass—as well as the Sally Lockhart trio of Victorian mysteries and other books for young readers. Among his other awards, he has won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in honor of the body of his work.
About Bill Nighy
Bill
Nighy is a multi-award-winning actor who has appeared in
many TV dramas, including State of Play,
The Girl in the Café, and Page Eight, for which he received a
Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. He won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for
his role as Billy Mack in Love Actually,
while his other films include Pirates of
the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and the smash hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.