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Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change, 1)
Full title: | Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change, 1) |
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ISBN: | 9780765323132 |
ISBN 10: | 0765323133 |
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Publisher: | Tor Books |
Edition: | First |
Num. pages: | 320 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
First published in 2006, Jo Waltonâs 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 canât understand why her and her husband Davidâs 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 whoeverâs behind the murder, and the frame-up, didnât 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.