A High Wind in Jamaica

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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is set against the lush, volatile backdrop of 19th-century Jamaica. A High Wind in Jamaica is a haunting, darkly humorous exploration of innocence, imagination, and the eerie unpredictability of childhood.

When a hurricane devastates their plantation home, the Bas-Thornton children are sent to England for safety. But fate has other plans: their ship is overtaken by pirates, and what follows is a surreal, unforgettable voyage through lawless waters and even murkier moral depths.

Unlike any "children's adventure" before it, this novel shatters romantic illusions of piracy and youth. Hughes writes children not as sweet caricatures, but as mysterious, instinct-driven creatures-capable of joy, cruelty, wonder, and indifference in equal measure.

Originally published in 1929 and praised by the likes of William Golding and Graham Greene, A High Wind in Jamaica is at once a savage satire and a chilling psychological odyssey. It's a literary classic that continues to provoke, disturb, and mesmerize readers nearly a century later.