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My favourite fictional character: I'll never forget these half-wild, 'too much' heroines – Philip Pullman's Lyra and Elena Ferrante's Lila

  • Written by Jane Gleeson-White, Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
My favourite fictional character: I'll never forget these half-wild, 'too much' heroines – Philip Pullman's Lyra and Elena Ferrante's LilaLila, played by Ludovica Nasti (right) in the HBO production of Elena Ferrante's My Beautiful Friend. Eduardo Castaldo/HBO

Reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights to my children around 2007, I met its heroine, Lyra Belacqua. My children barely remember her. I will never forget her – nor Pantalaimon, her daemon; her soul in protean...

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