# Farthing

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- Book: [Farthing](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton/farthing) ([Farthing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton/farthing.md))
- Authors: [Jo Walton](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-walton)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7211-300-9
- Published: 2013-12-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.