Whisky Galore By Compton MacKenzie.
 
This book is 266 pages.
 
Life is hard for the inhabitants of the remote Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. Wartime has brought out rationing, but when the whisky runs out too, morale hits rock bottom. So when the SS Cabinet Minister runs around with a cargo of fifty thousand cases of 'the water of life', the islanders can't believe their luck...