A High Wind in Jamaica

When a hurricane rips through their Jamaican plantation, the five Bas-Thornton children are packed off to England, only to have their ship captured by pirates. What follows is not a swashbuckling adventure but a chillingly unsentimental descent into the psychological abyss where the lines between innocence and savagery blur. Richard Hughes masterfully subverts every expectation of childhood and piracy, revealing the terrifying amorality lurking beneath the surface of supposedly innocent minds, as the children navigate a world of casual violence and profound misunderstanding, reshaping their captors' lives in ways neither side anticipates.