Lillian Beckwith's classic tales of crofting life.
Lillian Comber (1916-2004) 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,
Lilllian Beckwith's Hebridean Kitchen.
For an unsentimental, lively, apparently photographically accurate
picture of a Hebridean island, Miss Beckwith's essays or memoirs or
stories would be hard to beat
*The Times*
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