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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Hayp-nee when I've heard it, usually.
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Thanks, mentally I was pronouncing it like half penny with the 'lf' missing but that seemed awkward.
I haven't started the book yet, but as I said, I really enjoyed Farthing. Walton said it was inspired by Josehine Tey's Brat Farrar and certain discrepancies in the timeline like people mentioning vacationing on the Continent 5 years earlier when we were still fighting WWII. Walton decided that rather than being a mistake, it was an alternate history where the war ended early and set her book in that universe.
The book itself starts out with a typical English country house mystery at an estate called Farthing. The murder victim is the man who led the effort to oust Churchill and accept Rudolph Hess' offer of peace. At the beginning the mystery is at the forefront and the alternate history is mainly in the background but becomes more important as the plot develops.
It's part of a trilogy. The murder plot is wrapped up in the first book but larger issues remain unresolved.