"Very impressive....Portrays modern woman in all her complexity." — Literary Horizons
"One cannot praise the writing too highly...She plays on language as on an instrument with the severe discipline of a professional master." — Best Seller
"A totally modern work. Martha Quest is, above all, ironically percieved by the author in whose hands irony is an instrument of compassion." — New Republic
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seems to me that as the most important thing I could ever do." — Barbara Kingsolver
"With deceptive simplicity she reveals more about the private depths of mind and soul that perhaps one ought to know." — Daily Telegraph
