A Shine of Rainbows

Lillian Beckwith

ISBN 10: 0091554705 / ISBN 13: 9780091554705

Published by Hutchinson & Co., London, 1984

About this Item

122pp. The story of Thomas, an orphan boy who goes to live with foster parents on the Hebridean island of Corrie. A story of relationships. Bright clean condition, some wear to corners of dj and v.small tear to dj at top of spine at back, no inscriptions. Seller Inventory # 1645

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Shine of Rainbows

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co., London

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Illustrated

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The story of Thomas, a shy, frail orphan boy who goes to live with foster parents on an isolated croft on an island in the Hebrides.

About the Author:

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.