- 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
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cover_artist =Brett Helquist (US)
country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Children'sFantasy 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
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followed_by ="Fly by Night" is a children's
fantasy novel byFrances Hardinge , published onOctober 7 ,2005 byMacmillan Publishers in the UK and onApril 25 ,2006 byHarperCollins in the US, and aimed at teens.Fact|date=May 2008 Fly by Night won theBranford 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=TheBranford Boase Award |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5XuOQLZOr |archivedate=2008-05-18] and was listed in theSchool 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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