chapter 1 - prologue

We are in the '70s, and Lyra is a 14-year-old, cold, lonely, nervous and with a past of difficulty.
She lives in London, in an orphanage because she lost her parents at the age of 6.
She would like to escape from that place so that she could live and travel the world, be free and become a writer.
One day, she'll find a diary from an indecipherable writing in an unknown language.
she's writing in empty pages at the end of the book, till she starts losing control of herself.