by Philip Pullman · Random House Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375845161
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In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. When an employee of her late father hears the words "Beware the seven blessings," he dies of fear, triggering a series of events that lead Sally into the city's underworld in search of answers about her father's death. This paperback edition, published by Ember, is an exciting mystery and adventure novel for young adults.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
