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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’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 A ...more

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Lillian Beckwith’s books

Average rating: 3.94 · 3,954 ratings · 477 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hills Is Lonely (Hebridean Trilogy, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 1,241 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 — 554 ratings — published 1961 — 36 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 — 313 ratings — published 1968 — 30 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 — 300 ratings — published 1964 — 27 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) 4.14 avg rating — 228 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) 4.12 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1973 — 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
	Bruach Blend 4.11 avg rating — 211 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 3.94 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1984 — 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
	The Spuddy 3.81 avg rating — 134 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 3.81 avg rating — 124 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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Series by Lillian Beckwith

The Hebridean Trilogy (4 books)
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Lillian Beckwith

3.92 avg rating — 2,305 ratings

The Second Hebridean Trilogy (3 books)
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Lillian Beckwith

4.10 avg rating — 765 ratings

Quotes by Lillian Beckwith (?)

“want to strip them off you and add them”
― Lillian Beckwith, A Proper Woman

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“married … the … d … duck.…’ There”
― Lillian Beckwith, The Sea for Breakfast

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