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First edition first impression 1929. A High Wind in Jamaica was Richard Hughes?s first novel. It was written over a peculiarly anxious and difficult period of his life when he was in his mid-to-late twenties. His engagement to a young poet, Nancy Stallibrass, had been broken off a few days before the date of the wedding, and he suffered a nervous collapse. In his depression he was able to write for not more than ten minutes at a time and often found that he could not write at all for days together.