Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765323132)

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.

Author: Jo Walton
ISBN-10: 0765323133
ISBN-13: 9780765323132
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.89d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 116384 / Farthing