Lillian Comber, author (1916 - January 3, 2004) was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, and wrote under the name Lillian Beckwith. Her most notable works are a series of semi-autobiographical books that chronicle her years living in Elgol, Isle of Skye, and later on the nearby and smaller Isle of Soay. Originally arriving in 1942 under doctor's orders for a rest, Beckwith stayed several years, eventually buying and running her own croft. In order, those books are:
All are also available as audiobooks narrated by Hannah Gordon.[2]
Allegedly, some of her neighbours later felt that the somewhat comical characters on Beckwith’s fictional island of Bruach were too close to real persons, causing Beckwith to become somewhat of a persona non grata in her former home.
She has also written a book About my Father's Business (1971) about her childhood in her father's grocery shop.
She moved to the Isle of Man in 1962 and died on 3 January 2004 aged 87. [3]
Lillian Beckwith has also written fiction :
A collection of short stories :
And a cookery book :