Twice a day, at dawn and dusk, the bugle sounds for the 15 minute day/night changeover. Residents are assigned to day or night according to their name, aligned to the Beloved they are born under, and must wear a badge showing their classification. Toll's unique character comes from its division into Toll-by-Day and Toll-by-Night, the two towns time-sharing the same physical space. The novel is mostly located in the town of Toll, which has the only surviving bridge over the Langfeather gorge.
Everyone is named according to the Beloved in whose time they are born. The people follow the cult of numerous small deities, known as the Beloved, each sacred in just a few hours in the year. It is set in the same grotesque fantasy world of The Realm, which Hardinge describes as bearing some similarity to early 18th century England. It is the sequel to Fly by Night, featuring the same protagonist Mosca Mye. It was shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Twilight Robbery is a children's or young adults' comic fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on 4 March 2011 by Macmillan in the UK, and, under the name Fly Trap, by HarperCollins in the USA.
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