This time, it seems as if there’s no way out. With each trip around the clock, past deeds catch up with them and old enemies reappear.

But wherever there’s a plot, there’s sure to be treachery, and wherever there’s treachery, there’s sure to be trouble-and trouble is what Mosca, Clent, and Saracen the Goose love best. When Mosca and Clent are separated by this quirky law, they hatch a plot to escape. Read the latest reviews for Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge at, the UKs largest childrens book review community with over 125000 reviews. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases. This is Hardinge’s first novel and according to her is a comedy fantasy historical spy thriller crime caper murder mystery, set in an alternative world, but with no magic. Each resident, visitor, and passerby is allowed out in public only during one of these phases, with the segregation dependent on their name. out of Jams and Butterchurns, which is why her father insisted on naming her after the housefly. In introducing an author, it makes sense to start at the beginning. The city is well-mannered and orderly by night, chaotic and debaucherous. Fly By Night is the stunning debut novel from Frances Hardinge, author of the Costa Award winning The Lie Tree.

In this strange, aptly named gateway town, visitors may neither enter nor exit without paying a steep price. Although the Realm is based roughly on England at the start of the eighteenth century, I have taken appalling liberties with historical authenticity and, when I felt like it, the laws of physics. Having successfully wreaked revolution upon the City of Mandelion, the pair find themselves escaping catastrophe by the skin of their teeth and seeking refuge in Toll. In the back of Fly By Night, Frances Hardinge gives us the following warning: 'This is not a historical novel. Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent return in the sequel to Fly By Night, from award-winning author Frances Hardinge

Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge