{"id":479,"date":"2025-10-24T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/the-rose-field-by-philip-pullman-nail-biting-conclusion-to-the-northern-lights-series-fiction-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:46:44","slug":"the-rose-field-by-philip-pullman-nail-biting-conclusion-to-the-northern-lights-series-fiction-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/the-rose-field-by-philip-pullman-nail-biting-conclusion-to-the-northern-lights-series-fiction-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rose Field by Philip Pullman \u2013 nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series | Fiction | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> \u201cThere are no endings,\u201d said Hilary Mantel on the final page of Bring Up the Bodies; \u201cthey are all beginnings.\u201d Pullman draws his great matter to a close, but he\u2019s clear that his characters, and their stories, will continue without him \u2013 that the end of his book marks the start of their next chapter. \u201cWe need the things we can\u2019t explain, can\u2019t prove, or else we die of suffocation,\u201d says Lyra, towards the end of the novel. With The Book of Dust, Pullman has given us room to breathe.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/oct\/23\/the-rose-field-by-philip-pullman-nail-biting-conclusion-to-the-northern-lights-series\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/oct\/23\/the-rose-field-by-philip-pullman-nail-biting-conclusion-to-the-northern-lights-series<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are no endings,\u201d said Hilary Mantel on the final page of Bring Up the Bodies; \u201cthey are all beginnings.\u201d Pullman draws his great matter to a close, but he\u2019s clear that his characters, and their stories, will continue without him \u2013 that the end of his book marks the start of their next chapter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,33,10,19,34],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-creativity","tag-democracy","tag-knowledge","tag-philip-pullman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}