When does an allegation become a historical one? How should such allegations be dealt with? Who should be protected, defended, and supported? At what stage of proceedings, and how, can it be decided who is ‘the victim’? How often is it true that there is no smoke without fire? How can one measure the destruction of a career, a reputation, or a life? How should we behave? Why were books like Crime and Punishment, The Trial, and The Allegations written?
Novelist, television broadcaster, journalist, and erstwhile presenter of Radio 4’s Front Row, Mark Lawson is author of The Allegations, in which a leading academic is arrested for a potentially reputation-ruining historic assault. A friend he turns to for support is also the subject of career-ending accusations. Both are bewildered, as are family and friends.
A work of fiction with a ring of truth.
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