Stephen Hayes reviewed A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
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5 stars
The most memorable thing was what it had to say about culture shock, of how the reality of England was so different for the children than the mental image conjured up by being told about it when they had never seen it. At the time I first read it I had been in England for 5 months, and the book helped me to understand my own experience of culture shock. So might St Matthew, when recounting some trivial incident, write, "that it might be fulfilled what was written by the prophet so-and-so".
