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Description
One summer weekend in 1949—but not our 1949—the well-connected “Farthing set”, a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”
Inspector Carmichael -
“I clapped both hands to my mouth to hold back absolutely all the things that I was thinking, about sisters, Bognor, Macedonians, Sir James, Mark, and even pregnancy. It probably wouldn't have mattered. I think I was invisible to both of them. I looked from one of them to the other as they stared at each other. Angela looked triumphant and Daphne devastated, like a pair of goddesses done by some genius sculptor who wanted to show that Victory and Defeat have the same face.”
Lucy Kahn -
“We also didn't keep the dietary laws, though I wouldn't have minded and I sometimes had the feeling David wanted to. His breaking them was a deliberate taboo-breaking thing for him. He ate pork because he wanted to be seen as English, not because he wanted to eat it. I resented it when people served it to him specially. He never talked about it, except once, when he said how he wished that people would read the rest of the things Jews aren't supposed to eat and take to serving us buttered lobsters or shrimp on toast.”
Lucy Kahn
First Sentence
It started when David came in from the lawn absolutely furious.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 1 in the Small Change series.
Authors & Contributors
- Jo Walton (Author)
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