Fly by Night (Hardinge novel)

Fly by Night (Hardinge novel)

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name = Fly by Night
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image_caption = First edition cover (UK)
author = Frances Hardinge
illustrator =
cover_artist = Brett Helquist (US)
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
subject =
genre = Children's Fantasy novel
publisher = UK: Macmillan US: HarperCollins
pub_date = October 7, 2005
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 304 pp (first edition, hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 1405020784
oclc =
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"Fly by Night" is a children's fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on October 7, 2005 by Macmillan Publishers in the UK and on April 25, 2006 by HarperCollins in the US, and aimed at teens.Fact|date=May 2008 Fly by Night won the Branford Boase Award in 2006, [cite web |url=http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/BBA/BBA%202006/bbawinner2006.html |title=Branford Boase Award 2006 |accessdate=2008-05-18 |year=2006 |publisher=The Branford Boase Award |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5XuOQLZOr |archivedate=2008-05-18] and was listed in the School Library Journal's Best Books of 2006. [cite web |url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6395088.html |title=Best Books 2006 |accessdate=2008-05-18 |last=Jones |first=Trevelyn |coauthors=et. al |date=2006-12-01 |work=School Library Journal]

ynopsis

In an alternative version of 18th-century England, Mandelion is ruled in name by a mad Duke, in reality by a group of competing Guilds, and in aspiration by a variety of royal pretenders. Since the Realm was shattered, the king deposed, and the parliamentarians and monarchists locked in struggle, with the Guilds in between, there has never been real peace, and open warfare is just a wrong move away.

Into this tinderbox comes Mosca Mye, an orphan of infamous Quilliam Mye, has taken up with a smooth-talking con man, Eponymous Clent, both because she loves words, and because she accidentally set her stingy uncle's mill on fire. Together they get involved in the power intrigues of the city. But Mosca, though very bright and literate (a rarity in this world), understands a lot less than she thinks she does.

References

External links

* [http://www.franceshardinge.com/ Frances Hardinge's homepage]
* [http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&BookID=371615&Category= Macmillan entry for Fly by Night]


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