Fly By Night

De: Frances Hardinge

Narrado por: Lesley Sharp

Fly By Night, read by actress Lesley Sharp, is a breathtaking adventure story, set in reimagined eighteenth-century England, and is the stunning debut novel from Frances Hardinge, author of the Costa Award winning The Lie Tree.

As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan called Mosca Mye and her loyal companion, a cantankerous goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca is on the run, heading for the city of Mandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits among cut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorize the people of Mandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder . . .

Winner of the Branford Boase award, Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge has an unforgettable cast of characters and an inspiring message at its heart – sometimes the power of words can change the world.

Fly By Night is followed by its thrilling sequel, Twilight Robbery.

'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

© Frances Hardinge; (P) Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Great story...creative and lovely use of language!

Have read this book several time and very much enjoyed this audiobook. With the exception of Eponymous Clent, the performer sounded very much as how the character sounded in my mind. It was easy to tell who was saying what due to the wide variety of character voices she uses to great effect in the performance. Pacing was very nice and her ability to build a scene with her voice made for a charming audiobook. Mosca Myers has another adventure in Fly Trap. Would love to have that as an audiobook as well!

incompletel

It's a great book with an excellent narrator, but be warned that it skips chunks of the actual book. It seems to be somewhat abridged. I don't like that I wasn't warned about that period

Wonderfully story - irritating narration

I enjoyed this book when I read it, although I find all Frances Hardinge's books take a while to get into. The plot is complex, twisting and turning, Mosca is a satisfying heroine, and her world is imagined in full and often terrifying detail. I found the narration irritating at times, though - a bit too exaggerated in some voices (one would have thought it impossible to over-exaggerate Eponymous Clent, but the narrator achieves it!), and rather too mournful in between.

I loved The Lie Tree by the same author...

I found the complex story hard to stick with, but enjoyed it some what nevertheless.

A magical book

Frances Hardinge is a total genius, and of the many of her books I’ve read this is my favourite. It’s beautifully performed in this audiobook, and the whole thing is an absolute joy, start to finish, with its luminous characters and their delightful rolling around in the ink and dirt of words.