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Sally lockhart, trying to put her troubled past behind her after her fiances death, has settled into a comfortable life with her daughter, harriet, her career, and her london friends. Philip pullman was born in norwich, england and was brought up in rhodesia, australia, london, and wales. The third book in philip pullman s classic sally lockhart quartet in a beautiful new edition for the 30th anniversary. Sally lockhart is first introduced in the ruby in the smoke, the first of the four novels in the sally.
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