One summer weekend in 1949 — but not our 1949 — the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace...
I loved Farthing, the first book in this series, despite avoiding alternate history and especially anything involving Nazis and WWII like the plague. In Farthing, Jo Walton took a classic British country house mystery and used it to divert the reader from all the subtly horrifying alternate histo...
This was a satisfying end to a trilogy of books for a change. The last couple trilogies I've ready ended in a very unsatisfying way, with the third books always disappointing. This was the exception to the rule as it was the best of the three books for me. I didn't give it the highest rating beca...