"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems
(whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of
a young Englishwoman--the power of her ties to family, husband and her
'adopted' country, Nigeria--as well as the illumination of her own soul
and that of the narrator's) fills the reader with both sorrow and
wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age--its vision of the
individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and
the destruction of war is singular and profound."
--Carol Muske-Dukes