“It’s wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent … highly recommended.”―The Millions
After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney’s wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her.
A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller New Statesman Book of the Year

The Outrun: A Memoir

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“The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside . . . Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk―the sheer sensuality of Liptrot’s prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best.”―New Statesman
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey.
Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father’s mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London.
Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney’s wildlife―puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings―and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey toward recovery from addiction.
The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island and city, and about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind, and the moon to restore life and renew hope.
A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller New Statesman Book of the Year

The Outrun

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"It's wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent ... highly recommended."&#8213;The Millions After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney's wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her. A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller New Statesman Book of the Year

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At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

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At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

The Instant

Review\nA slim, luminous account of living and loving in Berlin, picking up where The Outrun left off ― Sunday Times\nI loved this book, such an intimate portrayal of emotional landscapes and the pull of the moon - it's one I'll return to often -- RAYNOR WINN\nBrilliant on the addictive bliss of romance . . . [The Instant is] a parable about the quicksands of internet dating, and a survivors' handbook 'for the heartsick' ― Telegraph\nIntoxicating, generous and refreshingly original. The way Liptrot weaves her inner life with the natural world and the digital world is utterly absorbing. This book is so alive and so wild -- LUCY JONES\nElegant, melancholic and deeply yearning, The Instant captures something vital about our age: its strange dislocations and connections. I drank it in -- KATHERINE MAY\nEnthralling and instinct-sharpening ― New Statesman\nA book of rare power. Part heartbreaking love story, part pin-sharp exploration of relationships in the digital age, The Instant is an intense and intensely beautiful book about connection, longing and the gravitational power of nature, and human nature, on the heart -- ROB COWEN\nSensuous and full of promise ― Guardian\nWildness lurks in the edges of this book - nature in its more feral state, and unashamed eroticism. I gulped this slim, powerful, ravishing little book down in one -- CAL FLYN\nAn astute exploration of longing and loneliness in a time when we've never been better connected or more distant. Most of all, I admire Amy's patience. The Instant is proof of what good can come from time, and waiting, and the thinking that accompanies both. I loved it -- ALICE VINCENT\nExperimental ― Financial Times\nA devoted observer of nature . . . The style of this book is elliptical, often reading like a diary . . . it offers a rich map of its author’s inner experience, flitting from thought to image and back to Google Earth again ... This memoir is about nature, lust and love but also redemption and healing, the story of someone who changed her life ― Irish Independent\nSarah Brocklehurst’s Brock Media optioned Amy Liptrot's first book The Outrun and will produce the film alongside Saoirse Ronan, Jack Lowden and Dominic Norris under their new shingle Arcade Pictures. Ronan is also set to star in the adaptation.\nLiptrot's prose is beautifully wrought, with plenty of observations that fellow members of the digital dating pool will empathise with ― iNews\nGlorious ― Times Literary Supplement\nThe Instant is magical, it is sexy, it is redolent of the natural world and it is all the things that makes Liptrot one of the most unique voices writing today . . . We simply cannot get enough Liptrot in our lifetimes. I want her to write a book every year ― Caught by the River\nContemplative, with flashes of grit and humour . . . remarkable ― Guardian\nLyrical . . . A beautiful, searching account of a woman's quest for fulfilment ― Buzz Magazine\nExperimental and daring . . . honest . . . this book has joys, and Liptrot has a graceful prose style ― Scotsman\nExperimental and poetic . . . [Liptrot's] an exquisite nature writer ― Orcadian\nLiptrot excels at extrapolating scientific metaphors out into emotional terrain and turning her astute insights into prose that possesses a lyrical sheen. Post-pandemic, when so much has become ‘remote', The Instant feels as though it's reporting from the frontiers of digital nomadism, describing how many of us might live, revelling in new freedoms while simultaneously drifting and weightless, aching for something to pin us down and hold us in place ― Geographical\nForensically examining love, loneliness, desire, compulsion and technology, The Instant is a short, beautiful and sometimes brutal book that illuminates the defining human experience of now: connection and disconnection. If Amy Liptrot is a nature writer, then it is human nature that occupies her. She is a literary warrior -- BENJAMIN MYERS\nThe Instant is a powerful and poignant memoir of Berlin, lov

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The Sunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author of The Outrun - on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age 
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING\nWishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a loftbed in a shared flat and starts to look for work - and for love - through the screen of her phone.\nThe Instant tells of the momentous year that follows, encountering the city's wildlife in the most unexpected places, tracing the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds and surrendering to the addictive power of love and lust.

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The Outrun: A Memoir

The Outrun: A Memoir

The Outrun

The Outrun

The Outrun: A Memoir

The Outrun: A Memoir

The Outrun

The Outrun

The Instant

The Instant