'A fascinating, ambitious and brave novel that will leave a lasting impression on the reader' - Brian Chikwava, winner of the 2004 Caine Prize, and author of the widely acclaimed Harare North

"The tragedy of the war for Zimbabwean independence seen from both sides - a great work.' - Sally Roschnik (daughter of Guy Clutton-Brock, founder of a multiracial co-operative in Rhodesia, later imprisoned, then deported from the country in 1971)

'For anyone interested in Africa, and especially Zimbabwe, this is a book they should read. Personal, yet cleverly capturing the effect on all women of living in a war zone, it gives you a strong sense of being in Zimbabwe. And it will undoubtedly make you want to go there.' - Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin (Kate Hoey; former Chair of the UK All-Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe)

'We who were close to it saw the Zimbabwean conflict as a man's war. There is no such thing, and Kay Powell has channelled the voices to tell us so: women's voices, with sad, brave, moving songs on their lips. How did we not hear them?' - Matthew Parris (The Times columnist, and radio and TV presenter)

'Kay Powell's novel about women who were trapped in the brutality of the war for Zimbabwean independence, and tormented by it, is both compelling and important; their voices are now alive in this extraordinary and moving book.' - Peta Thornycroft (South African-based correspondent for, inter alia, The Daily Telegraph and Voice of America)

'Kay Powell writes with the authority and love of one who knows the territory intimately. In Then a Wind Blew, her Africa comes to life on the page, its brilliant landscape darkened with the fear of war, the threat of violence, and the sadness of shattered hopes. A moving and illuminating novel.' - Lee Langley (multi-award-winning novelist, book reviewer for The Spectator, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature)

'...This is a beautifully written novel ... What sets it apart from other war-based novels is the fact that it focuses on the conflict from a predominantly female perspective. This was a first for me and until I read this book, was a point of view that I had given little or no consideration to, but one which needs to be talked about when you take into account all of the conflicts currently happening in various places around the world. ... A truly haunting novel that will stay with me for many months to come.' - 'Neats'