Research Catalog

Title

The outrun / Amy Liptrot.

Author

Liptrot, Amy

Publication

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2016.

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Details

Description

xiv, 280 pages : maps; 23 cm

Summary

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 towards 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.

Subjects

• Women alcoholics > Rehabilitation
• Orkney (Scotland) > Social life and customs
• Liptrot, Amy

Call Number

JFD 16-1341

ISBN

• 9781782115472 (hbk.)
• 1782115471 (hbk.)

LCCN

2015463092

OCLC

936352171

Author

Liptrot, Amy, author.

Title

The outrun / Amy Liptrot.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1341