DARK, ADDICTIVE, AWARD-WINNING ALT-HISTORY: THE SECOND IN JO WALTON'S SMALL CHANGE TRILOGY
Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, and the World Fantasy Award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her several other novels include the acclaimed Small Change alt-history trilogy, comprising Farthing, Ha'Penny and Half a Crown. Her last novel Among Others won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.
Stellar Horrifying and all-too-possible. - RT Book ReviewsWalton s use of a common genre template this time the race-against-time thriller allows her to develop the eerily contemporary underpinnings of her alternate history . Gives us much to think about regarding her world and our own. - The Los Angeles Times[Farthing and Ha penny] are compulsively readable for their characters and plots. But it s [Walton's] observations about power that make them hard to put down. - Baltimore City PaperA literary Guernica a top-notch thriller set in a terrified Britain that is all too willing to trade freedom for security, and which gets neither.Haunting...Like meticulously nested Matroyshka dolls, both Farthing and Ha'Penny reveal complex arguments layered in their elegantly structured narratives. - Los Angeles TimesMasterful work . This is political suspense at its best and brightest - Bookslut.com
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