A High Wind in Jamaica

Name: A High Wind in Jamaica
Author: Richard Hughes

by Richard Hughes

Novel of children captured by pirates who become increasingly dangerous and amoral

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Richard Hughes

Hughes was a distinguished Welsh writer whose A High Wind in Jamaica is one of the most powerful novels about childhood and violence in English, stripping away sentimentality to expose disturbing truths. In Hazard is an equally remarkable novel of storm at sea.

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