Book description
Lillian Beckwith takes her experiences of moving to a croft of her own,
and uses them as the basis of these comic adventures, once again set on
the island of Bruach. Adapting to a totally different way of life
provides many excuses for humour. In one story, beachcombing yields a
strange find; in another, a Christmas party results in a riotous night’s
celebrations. The eccentric cast of characters guarantees there is never
a dull moment on Bruach
‘The most amusing book to come my way’ Sunday Times
‘It would be very difficult not to enjoy The Sea for Breakfast . . .
for the charm and simplicity of its writing, not to mention the
wonderful, warm people who inhabit its covers’ Scotsman
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.
