Peter Levi on the BBC called the book "Radioactive hogwash", while Joe Ambrose of the Irish Sunday Tribune (who has expressed virulently critical views on many of Gray's books) called the author "a vainglorious lout" and "a profoundly reactionary penman".
Fortunately, the responsibility of looking after the children, who were quite young, was taken over by Bhageerathi Amma's elder sister, Janaki Amma (34), the childless widow of C. Raja Raja Varma, younger brother of the famous artist, Raja Ravi Varma, and himself a well-known artist and penman.
Oram, Richard (with Michael Penman), The Canmore Kings: Kings and Queens of the Scots, 1040–1290. Tempus, Stroud, 2002.
Carol Penman, a mother of three had always wanted to give her children and others in Nueva Ocotepeque the chance to grow up speaking English.