The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland.
That way, whichever side wins, the f.
When Bonnie Prince Charlie raises the banner of the Stuarts, the Durie family--the Laird of Durrisdeer, his older son James Durie (the Master of Ballantrae) and his younger son Henry Durie--decide on a common strategy: one son will join the uprising while the other will join the loyalists.
The novel opens in 1745, the year of the Jacobite rising.
The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland