Taking care: Lessons from His Dark Materials by Lois Gallagher

17 Dec 2020 | by Lois Gallagher

‘It can feel like an internal battle of epic proportions.’

Amir Wilson and Nina Sosanya as Will Parry and his mother, Elaine, in His Dark Materials, BBC One. | Photo: Simon Ridgway/Bad Wolf Productions.

As Christmas approaches amid a long Covid-19 winter, some of us are looking forward to the culmination of the BBC’s second series of His Dark Materials. Watching this adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novels, I was interested in the storyline of Will, a young carer, because I work with young adult carers aged eighteen to twenty-five in a supportive housing project called Move on Up, part of the work of charity Quaker Social Action, with the support of Commonweal Housing.

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