When Rain Clouds Gather
First edition cover | |
| Author | Bessie Head |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Set in | Eastern Botswana, 1960s |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print: hardback octavo |
| Pages | 188 |
| ISBN | 0435909614 |
| OCLC | 251800534 |
| 823.914 | |
| LC Class | PR9408.B553H4 |
| Followed by | Maru |
When Rain Clouds Gather is the first novel by South African-Motswana author Bessie Head, published in 1968.
Having left South Africa in 1964, Head wrote the novel while in exile in Botswana, completing it in 1967. It was first published in London by Victor Gollancz and subsequently by William Heinemann (1972), and in the US by Simon & Schuster.