Fly By Night
core novel 2005 Fly By Night
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (7,687 ratings, collected 2026-09-21) |
| Page count | 486 |
| First-edition ISBN | 1-4050-2078-4 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In the Fractured Realm, where books are dangerous, regulated things, Quillam Mye taught his daughter to read before he died. Eight years later twelve-year-old Mosca Mye, named for the fly-catching god of the hour she was born in, is an orphan with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words, trapped in the care of her cruel uncle and aunt in a dreary village. Her chance comes with the smooth-talking poet and con man Eponymous Clent, locked in the village stocks: she frees him, accidentally burning down the mill as she does, and follows him, with her homicidal goose Saracen, to the city of Mandelion. There, working as Clent's spying assistant, she becomes entangled in the city's politics, in the smuggling of lead to rebels and in the murder of the barge captain who carried Saracen there, and begins to discover complicated truths about the world she lives in and the power of words.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fly By Night
- Series: Fly By Night core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Frances Hardinge
Awards (verified)
- Branford Boase Award, 2006: won
Notes
- From the series record (Fly By Night): UK titles; published in the US as Fly By Night (2006, HarperCollins) and Fly Trap (2011, HarperCollins).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Fly By Night: position 1 of 2: next Twilight Robbery (2011)
Sources
- Fly by Night (Hardinge novel) (English Wikipedia)
- Fly By Night (Pan Macmillan)
- Amulet Books (publisher description, via library catalogue)
- Branford Boase Award winners list (the award's own site)
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