Jo Bunt

Jo Bunt draws her debut novel from a personal connection to Cyprus and the island’s divided modern history. Daughter of the Winds begins during the 1974 Turkish invasion, when Pru, a British Army wife, escapes with a baby who is not her own. Decades later, Leni returns to Cyprus to uncover the events surrounding her upbringing and the continuing effects of war on two generations. Google Books records Bunt as author, the 2013 CreateSpace edition, and the novel’s 428-page length. Goodreads independently identifies the same author-title relationship and historical-family narrative. Bunt was born in Cyprus to British parents shortly after the invasion, a background that informs her choice of setting without turning the story into memoir. Through Daughter of the Winds, Bunt presents readers with a family mystery organized around displacement, concealed parentage, memory, and belonging, with the island functioning as both a landscape and the source of unresolved history.