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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