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Title The outrun / Amy Liptrot
Imprint Edinburgh : Canongate, 2016

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  362.292 Liptrot engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xiv, 280 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Note 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
The Wainwright Prize for Best UK Nature and Travel Writing, Winner 2016
Subject Liptrot, Amy
Alkoholism
Alkoholister
Kvinnliga alkoholister
Naturen
Women alcoholics -- Rehabilitation
Mental Health
Alcoholism -- rehabilitation
Storbritannien - Skottland
Orkney (Scotland) -- Social life and customs
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biografi
Självbiografier
Classmark 362.292092
18.05
WM274 LIP
ISBN/ISSN 9781782115472 (hbk.)
1782115471 (hbk.)