After a hurricane wrecks their tumbledown house in post-Emancipation Jamaica, the Bas-Thornton children are packed off to school in England, but their ship is taken by pirates and they are carried along as reluctant passengers. Seen largely through the eyes of ten-year-old Emily, the voyage reveals how strange, amoral and unknowable children can be to the adults around them.
A dark, witty, influential 1929 novel that overturned Victorian ideas of childhood innocence. Download the free EPUB.