A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes would find immediate commercial and critical success with his debut novel, "A High Wind in Jamaica", first published in 1929. When a high wind destroys the plantation home of the Bas-Thornton family, the parents decide that their five children, John, Emily, Edward, Rachel, and Laura, should return to their original home in England. Accompanied by two Creole children, Margaret and Harry Fernandez, the seven children see their lives upended when they are captured by pirates. Sudden ...