Black and White Sands

Résumé : Elma Napier's love affair with Dominica, then a British colony, began in 1932 when this Scottish-born aristocrat turned her back on London's high society to build a home in a remonte coastal village on that most mysterious and seductive of all Caribbean islands. 'Black and White Sands' is the memoir of her life there - of bohemian house parties, war and death, smugglers and servants. Above all is her experience as the first woman to sit in a West Indian parliament (with or without a hat) where she campained vigorously for social and environmental reform. She died in Dominica in 1973.