'. . . in Bruach when a single woman or a widow owns a net which is borrowed for the fishing that woman is entitled to a share of the catch and there came a day when, my net having been borrowed and the herring having obligingly swum into it, I found myself the recipient of a whole creelful of fresh fish.' The Hebridean island of Bruach provides the setting for more enchanting tales of life among the crofters. Rich in incident and humour, Beautiful Just! sees Lililan Beckwith at the top of her form. 'This is crofting life ...
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'. . . in Bruach when a single woman or a widow owns a net which is borrowed for the fishing that woman is entitled to a share of the catch and there came a day when, my net having been borrowed and the herring having obligingly swum into it, I found myself the recipient of a whole creelful of fresh fish.' The Hebridean island of Bruach provides the setting for more enchanting tales of life among the crofters. Rich in incident and humour, Beautiful Just! sees Lililan Beckwith at the top of her form. 'This is crofting life at its strenuous best . . . masterly story-telling.' Press and Journal 'hilarious' Sunday Times 'absorbing . . . its humour is happy, easy and natural.' Daily Mirror
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Add this copy of Beautiful Just! to cart. $5.55, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Hutchinson.
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Douglas Hall. Good. CR 1975 First Edition. Good-Very Good Hardcover in a Good-Very Good Dustjacket. Maroon boards. Light edge and corner wear, corners bumped, pages yellowed. DJ is price-clipped, edge and corner wear. B&W illustrations by Douglas Hall.
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Good in Good jacket. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK.
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Mildly entertaining but in my opinion the least enjoyable of the several books "Miss Peckwitt" has written about her stay in the Hebrides. Reads more like fiction than her earlier books, especially her first (and best): The Hills Is Lonely.