Her mother had warned her..."Be careful what you wish for, you may get it." On the remote island of Gomera in the Canaries, this dissatisfied London lass, bored with her job and her boyfriend, longs for adventure and true self-knowledge. On a whim, she leaves her possessions on a towel on the beach and swims off to an island that is but a speck on the horizon.
Emerging naked from the sea she feels strangely free for the first time. She has only her body to give to the rough Arab traders who find her. So begins her adventure. When their boss arrives, a mysterious young sheikh dressed in white, she slowly discovers a passion in herself that overwhelms both of them. She voluntarily leaves with them on their boat back to Africa and eventual indoctrination into the sheikh's tribe and disciplarian ways.
This book makes The Joy of Sex, that revered primer of the 70's, seem like a dry textbook. If you like imaginative erotica, mixed with high quality almost poetic writing, this is for you.
Oh. I almost forgot. It is also a page-turner! We know that our heroine is headed towards a shocking finale and you can't put the book down until you reach the last breathless page.