The Hills Is Lonely
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name on fep. Binding condition: Good.
Escape to the rugged, windswept shores of the Scottish Hebrides, where a city-weary Englishwoman seeks rest and finds instead a world of breathtaking wildness and irrepressible characters. Lillian Beckwith's semi-autobiographical debut chronicles her arrival on the Isle of Lewis, where she lodges with a crofting family whose eccentricities, warmth, and stubbornness become the very fabric of her new life. With razor-sharp wit and an affectionate eye, Beckwith details the rhythms of island life — the peat cutting, the gossip, the storms — painting a portrait of a community utterly untouched by the modern world. Beneath the comedy and charm lies a meditation on belonging, solitude, and the peculiar courage required to truly leave one's former life behind. Beckwith's prose is deceptively light, laced with a dry humour that transforms even the most mundane Highland hardship into high comedy, earning her a devoted readership across generations. The Hills is Lonely stands as both a love letter to a vanishing way of life and a quietly subversive portrait of a woman finding freedom on her own terms — leaving the reader to wonder whether it is the hills, or the narrator herself, who is truly lonely.
Author: Lillian Beckwith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Hutchinson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name on fep. Binding condition: Good.
Escape to the rugged, windswept shores of the Scottish Hebrides, where a city-weary Englishwoman seeks rest and finds instead a world of breathtaking wildness and irrepressible characters. Lillian Beckwith's semi-autobiographical debut chronicles her arrival on the Isle of Lewis, where she lodges with a crofting family whose eccentricities, warmth, and stubbornness become the very fabric of her new life. With razor-sharp wit and an affectionate eye, Beckwith details the rhythms of island life — the peat cutting, the gossip, the storms — painting a portrait of a community utterly untouched by the modern world. Beneath the comedy and charm lies a meditation on belonging, solitude, and the peculiar courage required to truly leave one's former life behind. Beckwith's prose is deceptively light, laced with a dry humour that transforms even the most mundane Highland hardship into high comedy, earning her a devoted readership across generations. The Hills is Lonely stands as both a love letter to a vanishing way of life and a quietly subversive portrait of a woman finding freedom on her own terms — leaving the reader to wonder whether it is the hills, or the narrator herself, who is truly lonely.