Books by Lillian Beckwith

The Hills is Lonely tells a simple tale: needing to recuperate from an illness, the author finds a suitable retreat on the Hebridean island of Bruach ... More

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The island of Bruach provides the setting for more stories of life among the crofters. Packed with hilarious incident and evocative descriptions of ... More

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What can take the fire out of a fever and the ache out of loneliness? The answer according to Tearlaich is whiskey! And when he suggests to Lillian ... More

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Filled with the same sort of happy spirits, eccentric characters, and amusing anecdotes which distinguished its predecessors, The Loud Halo brings to ... More

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'When I had first come to the Hebrides Morag, my landlady, had advised me always to "take a rope -- in case," ...Over and over I had proved its ... More

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For Anna, a carefree and gentle child living in a remote community in the Hebrides, a chance meeting with the mysterious and romantic "Jimmy Pearl" ... More

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Ruth and her three small children eagerly await the return of their father, who has taken his fishing boat for a refit at a boatyard in northern ... More

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Lillian Beckwith takes us back to her childhood; to the years before the Second World War, when her father ran a small grocer's shop in a Cheshire ... More

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The Sea for Breakfast finds "Miss Peckwitt" (as the islanders endearingly pronounce her name) settling into a home of her own on Bruach, and ... More

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'The Lord puts the salmon in the river like he puts the berries on the trees. They're there for all of us, not just for the laird.' The way the ... More

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The story of Thomas, a shy, frail orphan boy who goes to live with foster parents on an isolated croft on an island in the Hebrides.

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He is an abandoned grey-black mongrel. The fishermen call him The Spuddy. The only person to care for him is Andy, a young dumb boy. For both of them ... More

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Kirsty MacDonald is a crofter on the idyllic Westisle in the Hebrides, an island she now owns. Her son, Wee Ruari, has started school on the mainland ... More

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'Oh, how I love that gorgeous smell,' announced the Bruach nurse, sniffing her way into my kitchen. 'I wish I had time to indulge myself with food in ... More

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