Half a Crown: A Story of a World that Could Have Been: 3 (Small Change 3)

For the first time in paperback the culminating novel of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Jo Waltons stunning Small Change trilogy. Following the award-winning Farthing and its sequel Hapenny Half a Crown is an amazing alternate-world noir tale of resistance to encroaching fascism from the author of Among Others.. In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britains upper class never faltered while British ships ferried undesirables across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east.. Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch Britains distinctly British secret police. Its his job to warn the Prime Minister of treason to arrest plotters to discover Jews. The midnight knock of a Watchman is the most dreaded sound in the realm.. Now in 1960 a global peace conference is convening in London where Britain Germany and Japan will oversee the final partition of the world. Hitler is once again on British soil. So is the long-exiled Duke of Windsor―and the rising gangs of British Power streetfighters who consider the Government soft may be the former kings bid to stage a coup detat.. Amidst all this two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry until now has been where to find the right string of pearls and the Watch Commander himself.A 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. ―Cory Doctorow on Hapenny