{"product_id":"farthing-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been-9780765323132","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJO WALTON won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer on the publication of her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe King's Peace\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eTooth and Claw\u003c\/i\u003e won the World Fantasy Award, and the novels of her Small Change sequence\u003ci\u003e--Farthing, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHa'Penny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHalf a Crown\u003c\/i\u003e--have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics' Choice Award. Most recently, her novel \u003ci\u003eAmong Others\u003c\/i\u003e won the Nebula Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50675014992146,"sku":"9780765323132","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6840b3f-867a-448d-a674-19cad7121151.jpg?v=1733869468","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/farthing-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been-9780765323132","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}