In the years since she settled on St Celia with her brother, Teresa Craddock has fallen in love with the island, its people and their aspirations. She has become an essential part of her village, is blessedly free as is her brother Tommy of any sense of noblesse oblige. Her best friend is one of the islands coloured intellectuals and she shares his amused contempt for colonial oficialdom. Elma Napier has been profiled recently in the Scotsman and in the Guardian, readers will be aware of her name - see for example http//www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/18/dominica-literary-rental-elma-