Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: Jo Walton
Title: Farthing
Review: Riveting first book in Walton’s pseudo sci-fi/revisionist history novel about post war England; in which a small group of wealthy British aristocrats were able to broker peace with Hitler in 1941 (“peace with honor” over Churchill’s rampage), and effectively end the war…and turn the rest of Europe, and it’s Jews, over to Nazi domain. The book is ostensibly a murder mystery that is really a treatise on the rise of Fascism. Well executed, well written, compelling….very unsettling. I’m on to the second in the series very soon.