High Wind in Jamaica - Tapa blanda

"I read Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica this year and felt breathless with shock and awe... Appallingly dark story...dreadfully funny." (Meg Rosoff Independent)

"A thrillingly good book" (Martin Amis)

"On one level it's an exciting adventure story with great storms and earthquakes, terrific animals, unruly children and some dubious pirates. What more, when young, could you want? But all this coexists with another narrative, darker and more sophisticated, complex and tragic. You can read this book over again and have read a different novel." (Michael Holroyd Guardian)

"What starts as merely masterful storytelling becomes something dreamlike and haunting; it's not a book you easily forget" (Independent on Sunday)

"Before Lord of the Flies there was A High Wind in Jamaica, an uninching, wryly observed portrait of the madness of children" (The Guardian)

First published in 1929 and made into a feature film, this book traces the story of a group of children caught up in kidnapping and piracy.