Farthing

Jo Walton

2006 • 319 pages

Ratings26

Average rating3.9

In an alternate reality in which a group of English nobles overthrew Winston Churchill and made peace with Adolf Hitler in 1941, a murder is committed at the home of Lord and Lady Eversley, and suspicion falls on David Kahn, the Jewish husband of Lucy Eversley.

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Series

3 primary books4 released books

#1 in Small Change

Small Change is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Jo Walton and Roan Parrish.

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egg

It can't happen here
this is a decent country
that's what they all say.

4.5

I'm still not cool with alt-history but I do love Jo Walton's style very much. This is a fairly cozy British whodunit, with an intrigue tackling broader social and political issues. I'll read the next one, but not in a hurry.

September 27, 2016