num_pages: 319
description: In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb.The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists, of staunch King-and- Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen, to murder Britain's Prime Minister and his new ally, Adolf Hitler.Against a background of increasing domestic espionage and the suppression of Jews and homosexuals, an ad-hoc band of idealists and conservatives blackmail the one person they need to complete their plot, an actress who lives for her art and holds the key to the Fuhrer's death. From the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennies that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl around one another, spinning beyond anyone's control.In this brilliant companion to Farthing, Welsh-born World Fantasy Award winner Jo Walton continues her alternate history of an England that could have been, with a novel that is both an homage of the classic detective novels of the thirties and forties, and an allegory of the world we live in today.
language: English
title: Ha'penny
titlecomplete: Ha'penny (Small Change, #2)
characters: Inspector Peter Carmichael, Sergeant Royston, Viola Lark
genres: Historical, Crime, Science Fiction, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History, Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 2483
series: Small Change
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Alternate History
publisher: Tor Books