The Outrun

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When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after 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 2016Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerNew Statesman Book of the Year Free Download eBook The Outrun Author Amy Liptrot – kino-fada.fr On a bleak January morning in 2013 my husband decided to surprise me with a trip to Papa Westray We would never set foot on the island but the flight from Westray to Papay is the shortest in the world, and we were doing it for the novelty bucket list factor It isn t very touristy to take this flight in January, even the pilot commented so, but we re not tourists and clearly my husband wanted to beat the rush While we waited at Kirkwall airport for our plane I was intrigued by a young woman al On a bleak January morning in 2013 my husband decided to surprise me with a trip to Papa Westray We would never set foot on the island but the flight from Westray to Papay is the shortest in the world, and we were doing it for the novelty bucket list factor It isn t very touristy to take this flight in January, even the pilot commented so, but we re not tourists and clearly my husband wanted to beat the rush While we waited at Kirkwall airport for our plane I was intrigued b...The day Amy was born on the island of Orkney her father was sectioned and taken to an institute in Aberdeen Not the most illustrious of starts Apart from her fathers mental heath she has an idyllic childhood, she spent hours on the Outrun, a huge field that went right to the edge of the cliffs Her mather and father were incomers to the island, and this field was part of the farm that they owned There is precious little for teenagers to do on these remote Scottish islands and when she got tog The day Amy was born on the island of Orkney her father was sectioned and taken to an institute in Aberdeen Not the most illustrious of starts Apart from her fathers mental heath she has an idyllic childhood, she spent hours on the Outrun, a huge field that went right to the edge of the cliffs Her mather and father were incomers to the island, and this field was part of the farm that they owned There is precious little for teenagers to do on these remote Scottish islands and when she got together for parties, she started drinking, just wine and beer first, but what she most wanted was to go to the big cities London was calling.London was exciting, full of life and new friends, but whilst there her alcohol problem spiralled out of control Her daily pursuit of drinking herself in...It seems a little churlish, not to say dimwitted, to read a memoir and then complain that the writer is a bit self obsessed, but I did find that by around page 200 I wanted Amy Liptrot to give it a rest and stop bending my ear Please, noof the I was born to be an alcoholic but now I m recovering day by day in the gorgeous yet bleak Orkney islands They re on the edge of Britain I was born on the edge and I live on the edge all my life, gedditAmy contemplates herself so much that even It seems a little churlish, not to say dimwitted, to read a memoir and then complain that the writer is a bit self obsessed, but I did find that by around page 200 I wanted Amy Liptrot to give it a rest and stop bending my ear Please, noof the I was born to be an alcoholic but now I m recovering day by day in the gorgeous yet bleak Orkney islands They re on the edge of Britain I was born on the edge and I live on the edge all my life, gedditAmy contemplates herself so much that even she complains about it Endlessly self absorbed and self doubting, I was shocked to find myself speaking platitudes that used to make my brain recoil.Every reviewer is very respectful of this book and tiptoes around it admiring its self lacerating yet perfectly tuned prose not one string even slightly flat , as if one wrong word might set Amy off on the downward spiral again But no, she is an excellent writer She is She s probably not my kind of excellent writer There s an awful lot ...This book was a must read for me because of the setting, the Orkney Islands, but I came away evenimpressed by it than I thought I would be Part recovery memoir, true, but Amy Liptrot writes beautifully about nature and her connection to it I could see the islands through her eyes, ...To be completely honest here, the sole reason I had for reading this was the setting of the book I have a weird fascination with remote and isolated places the Arctic circle, Antarctica, the Northwest Territories, and in this case, the Orkney Islands off Scotland s north coast between the Atlantic and the North Sea My husband s father s family is from the Orkney Islands so when I read a review of this book and saw the setting, I was all in.This is a memoir of a young woman, Amy Liptrot, who To be completely honest here, the sole reason I had for reading this was the setting of the book I have a weird fascination with remote and isolated places the Arctic circle, Antarctica, the Northwest Territories, and in this case, the Orkney Islands off Scotland s north coast between the Atlantic and the North Sea My husband s father s family is from the Orkney Islands so when I read a review of this book and saw the setting, I was all in.This is a memoir of a young woman, Amy Liptrot, who can t wait to get off her unexciting family farm in Orkney and head to London When she does, she loses all control and becomes a raging alcoholic, drinking herself to the point that she cannot hold a job, keep relationships going or find a place to live Amy enters a rehab prog...The Outrun is an extraordinary narrative, a warts and all cathartic autobiographical account of recovery from alcoholism twinned with the most beautiful writing about Orkney s natural world.Amy Liptrot s parents came to Orkney from Englandthan 30 years ago but will always be incomers and Amy, although born on Mainland, Orkney, seems to identifywith being English than Orcadian She left for escaped to university in London and that began her downward spiral into addiction, mainly to The Outrun is an extraordinary narrative, a warts and all cathartic autobiographical account of recovery from alcoholism twinned with the most beautiful writing about Orkney s natural world.Amy Liptrot s parents came to Orkney from Englandthan 30 years ago but will always be incomers and Amy, although born on Mainland, Orkney, seems to identifywith being English than Orcadian She left for escaped to university in London and that began her downward spiral into addiction, mainly to alcohol The Outrun is the story of her recovery which really only began when she returned to Orkney There she found a new addiction to the natural world, finding a position as a corncrake counter with the RSPB In her second year of sobriety, with ...A clear eyed memoir of recovery from alcohol addiction Amy Liptrot s prose skips forward with assurance and clarity The book is relatively short so are the chapters, which makes this is a pretty quick read, but there is depth too Reading The Outrun is like drinking cold water.The story is simple Liptrot, who suffered from severe alcohol addiction in her twenties, moves back to her home in Orkn...BOTWhttp www.bbc.co.uk programmes b06wclxnDescription Amy Liptrot s incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid the luminous Orkney landscape.Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney She was shaped by the wind swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the city A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and fun but she was unable to control her drinking Her alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and left her lost and lonely At thirty she finds herself washed BOTWhttp www.bbc.co.uk programmes b06wclxnDescription Amy Liptrot s incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid the luminous Orkney landscape.Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney She was shaped by the wind swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the city A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and fun but she was unable to control her drinking Her alcoholism exp...See my review on booktubeThe Outrun is the author s memoirs of how, returning to the remote Orkney Islands were she grew up, she manages to recover from her alcoholism It is a lovely testament to the healing power of nature, and I...

The Outrun
  • 09 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • 0393355594
  • Amy Liptrot
  • The Outrun