Hardinge once again creates a strange original society that reflects our own in provocative ways. Toll is a thoroughly dysfunctional town, in which the streets are literally rearranged every dawn and dusk to underline a sharp separation between the smug and prosperous daytime population and the despised, fear-plagued nighttime one. Escalating complications rapidly ensue as Mye and Clent discover to their horror that they're trapped within the secure walls of a town that's being taken over by the sinister Locksmith Guild. In full flight after having played a significant role in turning the port of Mandelion into an independent city governed by republic-minded 'radicals' in the previous episode, the trio enters the aptly named town of Toll in hopes of escaping across the only bridge over the mighty Langfeather River. Those forces being young orphan Mosca Mye (a 'clench-jawed scrap of damp doggedness'), silver-tongued poet/con man/ex-spy Eponymous Clent and Mosca's beloved but psychotic goose Saracen, readers are in for a rare treat. "Another city unwittingly admits the forces of chaos and widespread panic through its gates in this doorstopper sequel to Fly by Night (2006).
She's one of those writers whom I'd give a substantial sum of money to be able to read again for the first time." ~ Imogen Russell Williams, read more Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "I really can't recommend Frances Hardinge highly enough, even though her stuff is definitely aimed at kids. " Twilight Robbery has everything: fabulous characters – Mosca, a 'clench-jawed scrap of damp doggedness' with her adult sidekick Eponymous Clent – richly evocative world-building and writing so viscerally good you want to wrap yourself up in it." ~ Dinah Hall, read more The Guardian Full of phrases to savour, this is a book to reward real readers." ~ Children's round-up, read more The Sunday Telegraph Con man Eponymous Clent and Mosca's troublesome goose Saracen as they confront the 'night people' in the mysterious city of Toll. "Frances Hardinge won the Branford Boase Award for her richly inventive Fly By Night and Twilight Robbery is its fat, teeming, clever sequel taking up the adventures of 12-year-old Mosca Mye. This is what people have been saying about Twilight Robbery / Fly Trap: The Sunday Times
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