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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.
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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780765323132 |
ISBN-10: | 0765323133 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Walton, Jo |
Redaktion: | Nielsen Hayden, Patrick |
Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
Maße: | 210 x 140 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jo Walton |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.03.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,438 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
---|---|
Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780765323132 |
ISBN-10: | 0765323133 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Walton, Jo |
Redaktion: | Nielsen Hayden, Patrick |
Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
Maße: | 210 x 140 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jo Walton |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.03.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,438 kg |