A Question of Loyalties
* Miraculous. -- Auberon Waugh * I have no hesitation in calling it a major novel ... Massie here has vigorously pushed back the narrowing boundaries of English fiction. This is a novel of scope, substance and strength all too rare today. Spectator * Addictively narrated ... Out of one broken man's story evolves the weighty history and treachery of a whole era. The Times * If anyone needs a virtuoso example of what fiction can do that history can't, I would direct them to this novel. It renders Vichy France absolutely palpable in a way I have not read before: in all its abysmal compromises, hatreds, self-loathings, betrayals and silences. -- Nicholas Shakespeare Waitrose Weekend * As a prose stylist, Massie can write like an angel ... taut yet elegiac, epigrammatic yet wistfully lyrical. Sunday Telelgraph