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Book review: Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials sequel The Rose Field is full of thorns

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The Rose Field is the last of the Book Of Dust trilogy by British author Philip Pullman.

The Rose Field is the last of the Book Of Dust trilogy by British author Philip Pullman.

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By Philip Pullman
Fantasy/David Fickling Books/Hardcover/625 pages/$39.19

Readers of British author Philip Pullman have been left on tenterhooks for the last six years, as Lyra Silvertongue, the heroine of his beloved children’s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000), stepped into a ruined city in a moonlit desert towards an uncertain fate.

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