Awards
1993 Top Twenty Title Listener Women's Book Festival, New Zealand
1994 Australian Human Rights Award for fiction
Reviews
‘… this is an intricate, warmly-written novel about a time of extraordinary upheaval, both personal and political. Zwi rarely misses a beat.’
–Helen Elliott, The Sunday Age
'Rose Zwi is a straight talker with something worth saying …’
–Peg Job, Canberra Times
'… after reading Safe Houses one has the feeling of knowing something about South Africa, something more than statistics and sound grabs … [and] I want to read more of Rose Zwi.’
–Kate Veitch, Australian Book Review