The Last Paragraph of Not of a First Draft

In La Belle Sauvage there is a terrifying description of how school children are recruited to a kind of stars you're hit the youth by the church and government. I think that might have been in my mind when I was writing that passage, actually. What happened in La Belle Savage has had a long gestation, a long maturing, and it's going to come into full existence in this book. The Secret Commonwealth will be set 10 years after his dark materials. Lyra will be 20 and an undergraduate at Oxford. And yes, at St. Sophia's College, which you won't find on a modern map of Oxford, but it's exactly by some strange coincidence Lady Margaret Hall is