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.
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