A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) on Sep 1, 2020 at 1:01am PDTEd and Cherry chose their daughter’s first name Lyra’s as they were inspired by the main character Lyra Belaqua, in her dad’s favourite book series, His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman.Bar far, Philip Pullman – his dark materials are the best books I’ve ever read.— Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) June 13, 2015Not only this but a large portion of the first book, Northern Lights is actually set in Antartica as Lyra searches for her