Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Lillian Beckwith
Born: 1916
Died: January 3, 2004 (aged 88)
Bio: Lillian Beckwith, real name Lillian Comber, was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye.
Known for:
- The hills is lonely. (1959)
- The Sea for Breakfast (1961)
- A Rope - In Case (1968)
- Bruach Blend (1978)
- The Loud Halo (1964)