About this title: The Sea for Breakfast finds "Miss Peckwitt" (as the islanders endearingly pronounce her name) settling into a home of her own on Bruach, and mastering -- with the help, and frequently the hindrance, of her fellow islanders -- such varied arts as peat-cutting, winkle-picking, and beachcombing. Originally published in 1961.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ARROW BKS
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780090001101ISBN:0090001109
Description: Good. Covers show general wear, still good solid copy, damp stain on top edge, and visible on cover spine. small tear behind base of spine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Akadine Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781888173499ISBN:1888173491
Description: Very good. 2002; Paperback; No notes/hiliting; Bumped corners; Clean pages; Lightly edgeworn cover; No dog-ears; Strong binding; owner's name written on first page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hutchinson
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780090641505ISBN:0090641507
Description: Fair. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Cover shows light wear to edges, corners and spine tips. Spine has mild slope. Front endpaper has few markings and adhesive remnants. No other pen or pencil markings. Pages are clean, very lightly and evenly sunned. Text block is shaken, hinges are intact, binding is weakened. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Arrow Books, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780099066507ISBN:0099066505
Description: Douglas Hall. Very Good + A real nice tight and square copy that has a light crease on the front side of the wrap alongside the spine. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"Lillian Beckwith goes to live in tiny Bruach, a village in the Scottish highlands. This is her second book about her adventures there, but I hadn't read the first and figured everything out just fine.
It's just a string of stories, relating to her life in the village, one day cutting peat, one day taking her cow to the bull, one day trying her hand at lobstering. Underneath all her adventures are a sense that this is the life. It's hard, it's dirty, it's different from everything she expected - but it is real.
Some of the stories are fictionalized a bit. She uses dialect to try to convey the accents of the villagers, which can be a little confusing to read. There is a very brief glossary at the back, but I was still a little stumped as to some of the words. But it made for very relaxing, funny, lighthearted reading. Most of her books are out of print, but if you happen to find one, they really are lovely books."
By KiwiKathleen,
Waitakere City, Auckland, New Zealand
"A delightful second in this series, with plenty more laugh-out-loud or try-to-giggle-quietly-on-public-transport moments. And she uses language so evocatively: "The pantomime frolicked along from start to finish" ... "The wind seemed to have chose the poor little cottage as its main target and I was buffeted towards it" ... "The sky was effervescing with lark song" ... What a pleasure it is to read books like this!"
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