Used. Mass Market Paperback. When a weary former schoolteacher trades chalk dust for peat smoke on a remote Hebridean isle, she finds herself hopelessly hooked on the harsh beauty of crofting life. Lillian Beckwith’s charming memoir captures her baptism by salty gale-force winds and the eccentricities of her fiercely independent neighbors with plenty of dry wit. It is a wonderfully cozy escape that proves learning a whole new way of living is rarely without its sheer, comical cliffs. Drop by the shop to grab a copy before these windswept pages blow right out the door.