Elma Napier's remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with Dominica. It began in 1932 when she turned her back on London's high society to build a home in Calibishie, then a remote village on Dominica's north coast. There are tales of bohemian house parties, of war and death, smugglers and servants and, above all, of stories inspired by her political life as the only woman in a colonial parliament, her love for the island's turbulent landscapes and her curiosity about the lives and culture of its people.

As Diana Athill, the prize-winning writer and former publisher says:
"I envy Elma Napier for realising that most romantic of dreams: falling in love with a tropical island and deciding, like Robert Louis Stevenson, to make a life there. One of the most remarkable things about this remarkable woman is that she could write - and how! I can't think of any evocation of a beautiful place more vivid than this. Elma Napier had the gift to draw the reader in to the complexity of her experience in Dominica - its comedies, sadnesses, frustrations, deep satisfactions. A woman I won't forgot...a book that people will love."

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Title : Black and White Sands 
Author : NAPIER, Elma
Paperback : 260 pages
Publication Date : July 2009

ISBN : 978-0-9532224-4-5