The Outrun – A Memoir - Softcover

Liptrot, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393355594 ISBN 13: 9780393355598

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

Synopsis

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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Review:

A stunning, wild, and gracefully rendered account of life in the Scottish hinterlands.

A lyrical, brave memoir.... It's this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer--and one to watch.

Luminous.... Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching.

Whether [Liptrot]... writes of walking along the wind-scoured coasts or taking polar-bear dips in the icy waters, her prose is spare, lean, and beautiful, much like the country about which she writes.

This magnificent memoir is a record of transformation in its truest sense... Orkney legends tell of seals changing into humans, but, here, Liptrot is the shape-shifter, peeling off her wetsuit like blubber after snorkeling in the ice-cold sea.

Worth reading for the descriptions of life on a 'beautiful, barely touched stretch of land.'

Lyrical, transitioning from the rush of drinking into the raw sensations of island life.

About the Author:

Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist's model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0393355594
• ISBN 13: 9780393355598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304