Lillian Beckwith (Author of The Hills Is Lonely)

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Lillian Beckwith

Born

in Ellesmere Port, The United Kingdom

April 25, 1916

Died

January 03, 2004

Genre

Humor, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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Lilian Comber wrote fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children under the pseudonym Lillian Beckwith. She is best known for her series of comic novels based on her time living on a croft in the Scottish Hebrides.

Beckwith was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in 1916, where her father ran a grocery shop. The shop provided the background for her memoir About My Father's Business, a child鈥檚 eye view of a 1920s family. She moved to the Isle of Skye with her husband in 1942, and began writing fiction after moving to the Isle of Man with her family twenty years later. She also completed a cookery book, Secrets from a Crofter鈥檚 Kitchen (Arrow, 1976).

Since her death, Beckwith鈥檚 novel A Shine of Rainbows has been made into a film starring A ...more

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	The Hills Is Lonely (Hebridean Trilogy, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 1,175 ratings — published 1959 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea for Breakfast (Hebridean Trilogy, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 519 ratings — published 1961 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rope in Case (The Second Hebridean Trilogy, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loud Halo (The Hebridean Trilogy, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1964 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Just! (The Second Hebridean Trilogy, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1975 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightly Poached (The Second Hebridean Trilogy, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1973 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bruach Blend 4.13 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1978 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Shine of Rainbows 3.91 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1984 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spuddy 3.80 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1974 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Island Apart 3.80 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Hebridean Trilogy (4 books)
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― Lillian Beckwith, The Sea for Breakfast

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