The Hills Is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith

This is a book I've read before, many years ago, so it was familiar to me. Set in the late 1950's, it's a memoir posing as fiction and follows Miss Peckwitt, a middle aged Englishwoman, who recuperates on a Hebridean island in Scotland in a place called Bruach. She lodges with Morag and is introduced …