Meet feisty Sally Lockhart, sixteen years old, totally ignorant of literature, history and the arts, but she can run a company, make sound investments and shoot straight. With her father drowned under mysterious circumstances during an investigation in the South China Sea she has been thrown onto her own, very considerable resources.
This book lacks the depth of 'His Dark Materials' but is never-the-less a jolly good read; a real 'ripping yarn' in fact. Like all of Pullman's books it is very well plotted with no dangling threads and no slight-of-hand. Excellent escapism, I highly recommend it.
Scholastic, 207 pages
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