Is never growing up the secret to great storytelling? With Philip Pullman

<p>What was the inspiration behind Philip Pullman’s <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/413582/his-dark-materials-by-philip-pullman/9781841593425" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Northern Lights series</em></a>? How does he want readers to feel on Lyra’s final adventure in <em>The Rose Field</em>? Has his demon changed now that he has got to the end of this writing journey, and how do you say goodbye to characters you love?</p><br><p>In this special edition of <em>Ask Penguin</em>, host Rhianna Dhillon visits Philip Pullman at his Oxford home, surrounded by books (and barking cockapoos), to mark thirty years&nbsp;since the world met Lyra Belacqua in <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/431141/northern-lights-his-dark-materials-1-by-philip-pullman/9781448196876" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Northern Lights</em></a><em>. </em>The two reflects on a lifetime of storytelling and returning to Lyra’s world one final time in the conclusion of <a href="ht...