Susan Ertz in a wholly new role, as interpreter of a phase of American life which is little known to Americans and less so to British writers. Here is a novel based on the Mormon movement in the middle of the 19th century, an intensely dramatic and gripping tale of pioneering under unique conditions. A young English girl marries a Mormon missionary, and together they face the six thousand mile journey to Salt Lake City, determined to hold to monogamy, if possible in the face of the convictions of their fellow travellers. Finally, polygamy is forced on the man, and the study of the resultant psychological effect is sympathetically handled. Not a propaganda novel, in any sense, but an amazingly adroit presentation of a problem with which fiction has not --so far as I know--concerned itself.
--Kirkus Review