South Africa is at a crossroads. The country is potentially explosive for change. Into this general setting, the author places several families which echo the complexities of the country itself. Readers will see how the different members of these families - actually one extended family - form their different beliefs and how their journey across the volatile landscape of the sixties through the nineties brings them into conflict with each other and with the apartheid regime. Susanna Malan feels that she belongs to neither the English nor the Afrikaans sides of her family. Not English enough...