A Question Of Loyalties Av Allan Massie

<p>Widely acclaimed as Massie's finest novel, <i>A Question of Loyalties</i> engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty, nationality and family as they are put under threat by betrayal, by errors of judgement, or simply friendship.<br>Etienne de Balafr?, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his own father. Was Lucien de Balafr? a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?<br>Rife with the anguish of hindsight and the irony of circumstance, this powerful book brilliantly explores the ties between fathers and sons and the pains of love and duty in a period of European history that is still characterised by wilful denial and hatred.</p>