Jo Walton’s Farthing
We were chatting about Jo Walton in one of my discords and I was seized with the urge to reread this series—maybe my recent reimmersion into the Mitfords? (I feel like the Mitfords, or characters based on them, pop up in this series.) Anyway, this is an alternate history/murder mystery set in a world where England declared peace with Hitler, and there’s been a murder at a fancy country house, and everyone is blaming the main character’s Jewish husband bc they’re all antisemitic jerks. (The other POV character is the detective investigating the death.) I think the antisemitism is mildly less jarring on a reread, though still upsetting. And I forgot how stressful the ending of this one is! But still riveting somehow.
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