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Paperback448 pages
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www.franceshardinge.com/Publisher
Pan MacmillanSuitable for Ages
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1st September 2006Readers Guide
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Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
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A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Winner of the Branford Boase prize, this may not at first seem an obvious choice for young teenagers to pick up and read but what is quite certain is that it is impossible to pigeonhole as it’s very different from anything they’ll have read before. In essence, it’s historical fiction based around a reimagined 18th century England and quite fantastical in its content. The plot is wonderfully imaginative, the characterisation quite brilliant and the writing sublimely descriptive. It’s an adventure, vividly told that no one can fail to enjoy hugely as they are transported into another world. I guess that’s why the judges of the Branford Boase debut Children’s award thought it a worthy winner. It certainly doesn’t read like a debut.
If you enjoyed this then why not read Frances' second novel Gullstruck Island.
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Synopsis
Fly By Night by Frances HardingeAs the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a grumpy goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. This is an adventure story, set in reimagined eighteenth-century England.
Reviews
A wonderful and wondrous novel. Frances Hardinge has joined the company of writers whose books I will always seek out and read. -Garth Nix A rollicking read to be savored. -- Bookseller (London)About The Author
Frances Hardinge spent her childhood rambling around in a huge, isolated old house in Kent that "wuthered" when the wind blew and that inspired her to write strange, magical stories from an early age. She studied English at Oxford University, where she was a founding member of a writer's workshop and won a magazine short-story competition. She recently returned from a yearlong round-the-world odyssey. Fly by Night is her first novel.
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