{"product_id":"farthing-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been","title":"Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2006, Jo Walton's \u003ci\u003eFarthing\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEight 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out--a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942281674983,"sku":"9780765323132","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_d96df7bb-0e47-4056-af4b-3e3cffd9889e.jpg?v=1775249639","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/farthing-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}