Then a Wind Blew

Kay Powell

 

Synopsis

Then a Wind Blew is set in the final months of the war in Rhodesia, before it became Zimbabwe, and the story unfolds through the voices of three women. Susan Haig has lost one son in the war and seen her other son declared 'unfit for duty.' Nyanye Maseka has fled with her sister to a guerrilla camp in Mozambique, her home village destroyed, her mother missing. Beth Lytton is a nun in a church mission in an African Reserve, watching her adopted country tear itself apart. The three women have nothing in common. Yet the events of war conspire to draw them into each other's lives in a way that none of them could have imagined.

Review

A fascinating, ambitious and brave novel that will leave a lasting impression on the reader. - Brian Chikwava, winner of the 2004 Caine Prize

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