I read Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica every few years, and just finished reading it again. Many novelists have inimitable voices, Austen, Dickens, Trollope, G. Eliot, etc. but they're consistent from book to book. This novel, though, is absolutely unique even compared to Hughes's three others. It's more like a vision than anything planned out consciously. Wuthering Heights is the only other novel I know that feels like that, although (of course) they're nothing alike. Francine Prose explains more eloquently than I could do (but if you read the NYRB Classics edition skip her introduction at first because it's chock full of spoilers).

Oh, and it's about some children captured by pirates! Highly recommend!

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