Eight years after they overthrew churchill and led britain into a separate peace with hitler, the uppercrust families of the farthing set are gathered for a weekend. The balls and banquets of britains upper class never faltered, while british ships ferried undesirables across the channel to board the cattle cars headed east. The book has alternating chapters between lucy an aristocratic daughter married to the jewish man being set up to take the fall for the crime in a very anti jewish. Welshborn fantasist jo walton has built an awardwinning career on elegant, quietly subversive novels such as farthing, an alternate history that sets murder in an english country house.
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