When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: ‘Surely it’s that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it’s that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals…’ Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of the strange rest cure that followed and her efforts to adapt to a completely different way of life.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Timeless and Enchanting,
By Mamalinde "mamalinde" (Dallas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hills Is Lonely (Audio Cassette)
Time travel into an austere island of the Hebrides of the early 1960s - an entirely different place in time than my recall of the 60s! Remote and harsh, truly a difficult existence, but mingled with fun and high spirits. Ms. Beckwith takes just the right tone - no condescension, but rather an unvarnished yet sympathetic portrayal. Seeking a refreshing convalescence, she is intrigued by a response to an advertisement from an isolated croft in the Hebrides: "Surely it's that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it's that near as I use it myself every day for the refusals." The reader never particularly gets to know the author, but instead quietly lives the village life of this remote island. Alternatively lovable and bizarre, the locals are sketched with much affection and the language is plainly inspired. The landscape is very much a part of this armchair travel guide to a very uncommon world view. I am off to find Ms. Beckwith's other books, reading this story was like finding riches.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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the hills is lonely,
By David Landon (US via UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hills Is Lonely (Audio Cassette)
A beautifuly soft and funny book, Ms Beckworth captures the soul of the Shetland Isles. A retired School teacher retires to a remote isle and re-discovers the Human nature. You need to have a love of nature to truly appriciate her view of the world. In this rush, rush world we have evolved to, her story allows us to slow the pace for a while and enjoy the simpler pleasures of life. Try the other 2 books, The Load Halo and The Sea for Breakfast. This is a book you would want when the day is cold and wet. Short but full of characters.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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You "isn't" lonely...,
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This review is from: Hills Is Lonely (Paperback)
when you are reading this. The characters described is this lovely book will come alive - in all their strangeness and hilarity. The entire premise is bizarre, a not-so-young Englishwoman moves to the isolated Hebrides to live among crofters, who are simultaneously practical, inept, stubborn, deeply loyal, irreverant, convivial, argumentative and drunk a lot of the time. Beckwith certainly has a way with words, especially describing the vagaries of the English that the crofters speak, given that their mother tongue is Gaelic. Many of her observations and stories are laugh out loud funny - my boyfriend kept wanting know why I was laughing so much. If you want to travel great distances in time and space, farther than linear time and space would seem to suggest, check this book out. Personally, it will be on my re-read list and I'm going to get all the other Bruach tales too.
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