{"product_id":"farthing","title":"Farthing","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFarthing\u003c\/h1\u003eJo Walton\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003eMarch 1 2013\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780765323132\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0765323133\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \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","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390978359341,"sku":"20005","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_208480f7-0e2a-4f8b-a623-1db690f3bc85.jpg?v=1787350141","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/farthing","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}