Hills Is Lonely - Softcover

Beckwith, Lillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099066203 ISBN 13: 9780099066200

Publisher: Random House UK, 1994

Synopsis

Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple-and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. Elizabeth, too, teas intent upon doing her own work-which was really to spy on Lord Darvey for her eccentric and tyrannical uncle, a scientist himself, in exchange for her freedom.
But soon Elizabeth could no longer bear to deceive her gentle, handsome employer, despite her uncle's coercion. Nor could Justin ignore his intoxication w ith Elizabeth. Neith/r teas prepared for the swift and tender onslaught of love.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0099066203
• ISBN 13: 9780099066200
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256