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Item Details
Title:
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THE HILLS IS LONELY
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By: |
Lillian Beckwith |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£5.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1447216733 |
ISBN 13: |
9781447216735 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN (DIGITAL) |
Pub. date: |
5 April, 2012 |
Series: |
Lillian Beckwith's Hebridean Tales 1 |
Pages: |
232 |
Description: |
The first book in the Hebridean series |
Synopsis: |
"...I got the impression that they could imagine only two reasons why a woman should choose to settle down in Bruach: either that she was running away from the police, or escaping from a lurid past." Neither reason applies to Lillian Beckwith, in this memoir of her convalescence on an isolated Hebridean island where "even the sheeps on the hills is lonely". On Bruach island, she observes, muses at and joins the native crofters in their unique rhythm of life; where friends fistfight in the evening and discuss bruises the next morning; where the taxi-driver is also the lorry driver, coal merchant and undertaker; where the locals don't remove their hats during a funeral so their heads won't get cold; and where the post-office's 'opening hours' fit around the daily milking of cows and not the other way round! In a series of vividly drawn sketches, taking in birth, death, marriage and the seasons of life, Lillian Beckwith's writing is shot through with warm, cozy affection and droll wit. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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