"Peter Godwin's account of growing up in Rhodesia, and a brief spell in Zimbabwe post regime change in 1980. Wonderfully written, heartfelt, and in many ways a tragic story of how it could have worked"
"Godwin's account of Zimbabwe around 20 years after his departure. Seen through visits to his elderly parents is the tragic turn the country has taken"
"Cocks' later fiction work of a post-independence Zimbabwe and Mocambique, not always brilliant but presents some of the dilemmas of trying to make a living there quite well"