Cape Times 19 November 1999, Jen Crocker:
"Durbach is a generous writer, and what could have become a dreary story full of legalese comes alive under her telling of it. She tells her own story alongside the harrowing tale of the victims of this bizarre facet of South African law … It is an important book … important because in [sic] chronicles something in our recent past that we need to examine and understand for ourselves."