In the dead of the night, a helicopter cuts through the sky. We’re in Oxford, but not the Oxford of this world: as the man disembarks from the aircraft and wades through waist-high water, he hands a sleeping baby and her animal daemon to the dumbfounded Master of Jordan College, then vanishes again into the night.
And thus began His Dark Materials: an epic, three-season journey that will finally come to an end this Christmas with its protagonist, Lyra, entering the world of adulthood.
