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Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been

Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been

Walton, Jo

Paperback

Series: Small Change, Book 1

Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 0765323133
ISBN13: 9780765323132
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Mar 12 2013
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

First published in 2006, Jo Walton's Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism.

Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of the Farthing set are gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged Farthing scion Lucy Kahn, who can't understand why her and her husband David's presence was so forcefully requested. Then the country-house idyll is interrupted when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered--with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest.

Lucy begins to realize that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime--an outcome that would be convenient for altogether too many of the various political machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and underdogs--and prone to look beyond the obvious as a result.

As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out--a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.

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