Narrative
Bitter-Sweet and Spice
Frederick McDermott Coard · 1970
Synopsis
The memories of a Grenadian civil servant, gathered under the subtitle “These things I remember”. The author retraces his career in the island's colonial administration, from first clerk to district warden and then comptroller, the government departments and the Legislative Council he came into contact with, his stays on Carriacou and Bequia, and a passion for cricket that recurs from one end of the book to the other.
Context
The book appeared in 1970 in Ilfracombe, Devon, from the publisher Stockwell, in an illustrated volume of two hundred and eight pages, presented as the author's autobiography. Its index shows the extent of his career in the island's services, from the clerks' office to the post of comptroller, the place held in it by Carriacou and Bequia, islands of the Grenadines, and that of cricket, which recurs often.
Who it is for
Memoirs in English by a civil servant of the island; a testimony on the colonial services of Grenada.
Prizes and reception
Only the 1970 edition is recorded in catalogues, and the book is found mainly second-hand.