false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172520638m/183740.jpg 183740 5 Over a summers weekend in 1949 -- but not our 1949 -- the upper-crust "Farthing set," the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Hitler eight years before, enjoys a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter of two politicians in the group; since her marriage to a London Jew, relations have been strained. So she's surprised when she and husband David are invited for the weekend. Then, overnight, a different member of the set is found murdered, with abundant signs that the killing was ritualistic. As the authorities begin to investigate, it becomes clear to Lucy and David that they were invited in order to pin the murder on David. But whoever devised this conspiracy didn't reckon on the man from Scotland Yard being someone with his own private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and looking beyond the obvious. 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. More than an alternate-history story, more than a drawing-room mystery, Farthing is a compelling story of encroaching darkness and the people who ultimately decide to resist it. 1884104 2006 Farthing (Small Change, #1) total:317|5:77|4:137|3:81|2:18|1:4| 317 1216 548 116 4 3 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 04:17:34 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 04:19:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 12 08:03:19 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 22 10:46:49 -0700 2008 Publishers Weekly - I wish I could write like this! So succinct!

"World Fantasy Award-winner Jo Walton (Tooth and Claw) crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in 1949, ei...more...]]> 4 4 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 23:52:38 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 23:52:57 -0700 2008
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Really, these are the most delightful, most exciting, most troubling, most resonant books I've read in a long time. Yes, they're genre fiction, which means they'll be dismissed by some. And what a dreadful shame that would be--I wi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 23:13:25 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 18:20:58 -0700 2007
Walton...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue May 06 06:18:29 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 29 17:15:55 -0700 2007 Tue May 06 06:18:29 -0700 2008 Haiku review:
How can you expect
a happy end in a book
where Hitler still reigns?

Review:
Though a bit slower to start than I expected, Farthing was (overall) an outstanding allegory on fascism disguised as an alternate history novel disguised as a murder mystery. By ...more...]]> 4 2 false true Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 13:28:46 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 08:31:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 08:50:32 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 10:11:54 -0800 2008 Farthing is a story about how injustice creeps into a society, framed as a murder mystery set in an alternate-universe England.

A lord is murdered at a country house party, which is a setup you'd find in Christie or Marsh. But this is an England at peace with Hitler in 1949, and where pe...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 22 11:00:55 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 16:47:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jul 07 01:43:23 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 11:43:10 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 01:43:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 11:18:52 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 17:00:00 -0700 2007
Eight years ago, England made peace wit...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 10:55:31 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 19:59:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 01:21:38 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 01:03:17 -0800 2008 1
ADDENDUM: Alternate histories are always so difficult to really pull off (I'm ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 09 14:51:04 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 14:51:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 21:17:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 21:43:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:26:06 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:38:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:50:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:50:10 -0800 2009 Jo Walton, a World Fantasy Award winner for her novel Tooth and Claw and author of other well-received genre novels, proves her flexibility in a story that seethes with the energy of what-might-have-been. Critics compare the mystery features of the novel to the work of Josephine Tey, Agatha Christie...

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I wanted to love it as much as Cory did. You’d never guess it from knowing me (/eyeroll), but I’m a bed-wetting liberal when it comes to freedom and privacy. Perhaps the book would have had more impact for me if ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 12:57:20 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 13:01:05 -0800 2009
The premise is interesting--Germany controls...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 24 17:19:17 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 17:19:17 -0700 2007 http://oyceter.livejournal.com/480262.ht...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=183740