One of those books that is always on everyone’s best of the 20th century list and I’ve never met anyone who’s ever read it or heard of it. I read another of Richard Hughes’s books In Hazard previously about a ship wrecked in a storm, and really didn’t like it. This book is much more enjoyable and I think obviously a much better book. We begin on Jamaica in the 1870s and an English family is living their quaint little racist colonial life when a terrible […]
One of the fruits of emancipation of the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone’s throw of them…
High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
