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| Author | Richard Hughes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
Publication date | 1929 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 283 pp |
A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes' first novel, it was set in the late nineteenth century and followed a group of children captured by pirates on a voyage from Jamaica. A critical success as well as a bestseller on its first publication in Britain,[1] it was awarded the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse in 1932.[2]
- ^ Graves, Richard Perceval (1994). Richard Hughes: A Biography. Andre Deutsch. p. 187-188. ISBN 0233988432.
- ^ "Prizes For Authors." Times, 2 June 1931, p. 20. The Times Digital Archive, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS336143554/TTDA?u=bed_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=275d1226. Accessed 26 Jan. 2024.