FARTHING, by Jo Walton

(originally posted on September 25, 2007)

How to explain this book's fabulousness? It's a traditional mystery owing much debt to Josephine Tey as it is a keen alternative history on what might have happened had England negotiated "peace in our time" with the Third Reich as it is an unconventional love story as it is a jaw-dropping political thriller with an ending that is a serious blow to the kneecaps. Suffice to say I'll be reading HA'PENNY, Walton's follow-up, post-haste.