Shadow of the Moon is an excellent, long historical novel about the Indian Mutiny, excellent because Miss Kaye has a real historical conscience, a sense of impartiality and a great many old mutiny records to draw upon. She cannot refrain from exploiting the amorous and horrific side of the business—dash-M(ary) M(argaret) Kaye 1909?– © Jerry Bauering officers with moustaches, and screaming ladies in crinolines having their heads hacked off by sepoys—but she does not let these things get out of hand and she should be read by those interested in the period as well as by addicts of the romantic past.

John Bayley, in a review of "Shadow of the Moon," in The Spectator (© 1957 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), Vol. 198, No. 6720, April 12, 1957, p. 495.