The Outrun: A Memoir Liptrot AmyPaperback
The Outrun: A Memoir Liptrot AmyPaperback 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. But as she grew up,…
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The Outrun: A Memoir Liptrot AmyPaperback
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. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. 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.
Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. 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