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Subtle Knife

AuthorPhilip Pullman

NarratorChristopher Oxford

SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 2

Duration7h

CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction

Key StageKS4

PublisherInhouse

VersionUnabridged

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Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance, he steps through a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who, like himself, is on a mission. The second book in the `His Dark Materials' trilogy.

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