"Hazel Askew, Rowan Rheingans and Hannah James - three outstanding musicians who together deliver an attractive combination of harp, concertina, fiddle, banjo and accordeon to cement a neat selection of vocal harmonies. They adopt an enterprising approach to material selection, too - tracks range from bastions of traditional song (...) to Kate Bush's This Woman's Work and an unaccompanied treatment of the epic ballad from which they take their name - as women's struggles become the album's recurring theme ... There is much to like here ... Yet, given the hardy nature of the material, there's a suspicion of tweeness, particularly in the vocals, that jars ... More courage with their undoubted conviction wouldn't go amiss".
