Dust Blowing and Other Stories: Three centuries, four continents, twelve stories...

Dust Blowing and Other Stories: Three centuries, four continents, twelve stories...

Margaret Skea

  • 4.6 out of 5
  • 15 ratings
  • 160 pages
  • PG

Overall Content Rating: Parental Guidance PG

This novel mixes personal and family strain with settings that include conflict zones and camps. Language concerns are light: one mild expletive in emotional talk and one mild insult. Physical content in the samples centers on blood and injury from accidents or wounds, grief linked to past deaths, and stressful medical situations, rather than extended graphic violence. Parents should expect tense themes such as war nearby, illness, and relationship pain, with occasional Christian phrasing in prayer-like lines. There is no sexual content, strong swearing, racism, or LGBTQ+ material in the flagged samples, and matched words that look sensitive often mean birds, colors, medical tests, or everyday actions instead.

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Reviews first uploaded October 11, 2026 1:00 pm. Page updated October 11, 2026 1:00 pm.

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Profanity Mild

1

Strong language is minimal. One mild religious expletive appears in an emotional conversation about uncertainty and distress.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • hell: 1

Violence Mild

4

Violent wording is mostly absent in the samples that are idioms or gestures. Blood appears several times in contexts such as animal injury, a person’s scalp wounds, infection, and past family loss, alongside non-violent medical and color uses. The story also touches on harsh wartime conditions such as gunfire and camp life without graphic blow-by-blow fighting in these excerpts.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 4

About this book

From Multi-Award-Winning Margaret Skea - Fish / Neil Gunn / Mslexia / Beryl Bainbridge Best First Time Author Three Centuries Four Continents Twelve Stories An aid worker in Afghanistan; a mother in WW1 Germany; a girl who defies the Taliban; a father seeking to support his family in Kenya; an elderly lady facing eviction; a young woman discovering her unknown past and more... Secrets; moral dilemmas; heart-rending choices. A heady mix of despair and determination, sadness, and also hope. Read more