English author Frances Hardinge.
Cover is by Brett Helquist.
Aaagh...
Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't
got much. Her cruel uncle keeps
her locked up in his mill, and her only
friend is her pet goose, Saracen, who'll bite
anything that crosses his path. But she
does have one small, rare thing: the ability
to read. She doesn't know it yet, but in a
world where books are dangerous things,
this gift will change her life.
Enter Eponymous Clent, a smooth-
talking con man who seems to love words
nearly as much as Mosca himself. Soon
Mosca and Clent are living a life of deceit
and danger - discovering secret societies,
following shady characters onto floating
coffeehouses, and entangling themselves
with crazed dukes and double-crossing
racketeers. It would be exactly the kind
of tale Mosca always longed to take
part in, until she learns that her one true
love - words - may be the death of her.
FLY BY NIGHT is astonishingly original,
a grand feat of the imagination from a
masterful new storyteller.
Gotta put the rest of the blurb in...
See you monday, if you're lucky...
(Well this was actually fixed up on friday - waaaay lafter monday!)
Am stuck on FF12... a bit.
Damn cockratice in Rabanastre keeps running away from me.
Aaagh!
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