Fly by Night (Paperback) by Frances Hardinge

from rivkat

A mistreated orphan burns down her aunt and uncle's mill and runs away with the dangerous stranger visiting her village. Further crimes, and goose attacks, ensue. There's both death and slapstick as Mosca Mye tries to find her place in the world in the midst of political intrigues, floating coffe...

from allreb

This is fantastic. It is, in fact, probably the best YA fantasy novel I've ever read. It's a book lover's book: it's about the love of, um, books. It does deal with religious topics, but unlike a lot of fantasy novels that do similarly, makes it clear that the reader should make up his or her own...

from MyopicBookworm

I was taken by this book, from the very first scene, in which our heroine is introduced as a small baby, tightly swaddled and hung from a hook in the study where her father is writing a great work of history. The setting is an ingenious fractured reflection of England in about 1700, with the memo...

from phoebesmum

This is why I keep on reading; for all the sludge you find yourself wading through, every so often you turn up a genuine diamond. 'Fly By Night' is set in a world something like 18th century England, dominated by myriad household gods but still haunted by a religious reformation that's been overt...

from phoebesmum

This is why I keep on reading; for all the sludge you find yourself wading through, every so often you turn up a genuine diamond. 'Fly By Night' is set in a world something like 18th century England, dominated by myriad household gods but still haunted by a religious reformation that's been overt...