2 Books by Lillian Beckwith
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Overview: 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’s 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’s Kitchen (Arrow, 1976). Since her death, Beckwith’s novel A Shine of Rainbows has been made into a film starring Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen, which in 2009 won ‘Best Feature’ awards at the Heartland and Chicago Children’s Film Festivals.
Genre: General Fiction
An Island Apart Kirsty MacLennan is the cook at Islay, a respectable guest-house in a Scottish suburb. When her employer retires and the irritable Isabel takes her place, Kirsty decides it is time to leave – but where will she go?
Her dilemma is unexpectedly solved by Islander Ruari MacDonald, one of the guests at Islay, who has come to the city in search of a wife. Accepting his proposal, Kirsty leaves her old life behind and takes up residence on Westisle, an idyllic small island uninhabited except for the MacDonald brothers.
As Kirsty joyfully rediscovers her Hebridean roots and adapts herself to the mysteries of marriage and the challenge of a rigorous new working routine, only one thing stands in her way – the silent, brooding presence of her brother-in-law.
A haunting story of love and loss, An Island Apart is one of Lillian Beckwith’s most magical and elegiac evocations of island life.
Spuddy A fisherman christened the abandoned dog the Spuddy. The grey-black mongrel is hardy, shrewd and loyal, but the only person to care for him in the village of Gaymal is a young boy, Andy. Andy is also an outsider, as much in need of companionship as the dog. The two of them enjoy each other’s friendship, and when kindly skipper Jake arrives on the scene it seems as if their loneliness is over. But then events take an unexpected turn…
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