[In Listen to the Wind] there is a unique problem of class and colour…. H. F. Brinsmead explores the racial situation with understanding…. I am a little puzzled by the emotional content of the book. The actual given age of the two young people does not seem entirely borne out by their reaction to events nor by their attitude to each other, whether mildly romantic or comradely…. There is scope here for stronger and franker writing but it seems characteristic of this author that while she draws her backgrounds with a very mature force, her books leave the final impression of being rather longer versions of the good old "holiday adventure". (pp. 1580-81)