Praise for Fly By Night

Praise for

FLY BY NIGHT

“Hardinge’s stylish way with prose gives her sprawling debut fantasy a literate yet often silly tone that calls to mind Monty Python.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A distinctly imaginative world full of engaging characters, robust humor, and true suspense.”
—School Library Journal, starred review

“Intricate plotting, well-developed and fascinating characters, delicious humor, and exquisite wordcraft envelop readers fully into this richly imagined world.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review

“Mosca’s ferocity and authentic inner turmoil [are] both reminiscent of Philip Pullman’s Lyra Belacqua.”
—ALA Booklist

“Every paragraph, every sentence, is a delight. Fly by Night reminded me by turns of Joan Aiken, of Lemony Snicket, of James Thurber’s marvelous The Thirteen Clocks, and of Philip Pullman. In the end, though, it is unique, triumphantly itself.”
—Locus magazine

“Incredibly well written.”
—The Seattle Times

Also by Frances Hardinge

Cuckoo Song

The Lie Tree

A Face Like Glass

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following people: Maureen Waller for her fascinating and colorful book, 1700: Scenes from London Life, from which I learned about marriage houses, “a fair mark,” and countless other fascinating details of eighteenth-century life; the Duelling Association, for showing me a historical world full of wit, wickedness, and panache; Colin Shaw of Roving Romania, who showed us around the wild countryside of that bruised and beautiful country, with its tiny shrines, name-day celebrations, and “weddings of the dead”; and the denizens of Zehazel for all their support over the years.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Hardinge, Frances.

Fly by night / Frances Hardinge.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

First published: United Kingdom : Macmillan, 2005.

Summary: Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man, Eponymous Clent.

ISBN 978-0-06-087630-2

eSBN 978-1-68335-079-8

[1. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.H21834Fly 2006         2005020598

[Fic]—dc22

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4197-2485-5

Originally published in hardcover by Macmillan Publishers Limited, United Kingdom, in 2005.

Text copyright © 2005 by Frances Hardinge.

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