When they emerged, their home had been destroyed. The family survived by hunkering down in their cellar. In the chaos, their cat was killed by wild cats and one of their black servants was struck by lightning. Not long after, an even more powerful natural event befell the Bas-Thorntons: a hurricane. Emily fantasized about telling this story to impressed audiences in England. One day, on a visit to the neighboring Fernandez family, they experienced an earthquake that caused animals to go wild and the ocean to ebb back dramatically. Their five young children, John, Emily, Rachel, Edward, and Laura, ran wild around the abandoned plantation. In one of these homes lives the Bas-Thornton family. The unnamed narrator begins by describing the Gothic ruins of post-Emancipation Jamaica.
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Hughes, Richard.
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