A High Wind in Jamaica

£8.99

First published in 1929 this is the story of how an idyllic life in the Caribbean ends when a hurricane hits and the four protagonists of this tale are sent to boarding school in England. On route their ship if captured by pirates and it is from this point on that the tale turns savage.
"An admirable novel, vivid and exciting, delicate and swift. The strangeness is never exaggerated, the descriptions are exact as well as beautiful" - Cyril Connolly