Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which The Outrun has emerged. As well as writing for major newspapers including the Guardian and the Observer, Amy has worked as an artist’s model, a trampolinist and in a shellfish factory.
Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun (2016, Canongate Books, ISBN978-1782115472).[1][2]
- About the Book 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.
- Jan 25, 2016 Into this vibrant arena storms Amy Liptrot and her debut The Outrun, an uncompromising account of addiction and recovery played out against the blasted fields of Orkney.
Biography[edit]
The Outrun describes her experience of returning to live in Orkney, where she grew up on a farm, to continue her rehabilitation after ten years in London, during which she had resorted to alcoholism and drug use.[3][4][5]
Liptrot lives in England with her only child, a son, and in 2019 had been without alcohol for eight years.[6]
Awards and honors[edit]
- PEN Ackerley Prize, 2017
- Wainwright Prize, 2016
References[edit]
- ^Sharp, Robert (6 July 2017). 'Amy Liptrot awarded PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 for 'The Outrun''. English PEN. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^'2016 prize'. Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Richardson, Simon (15 January 2016). 'The Outrun: Amy Liptrot on connecting with nature'. BBC Arts. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Adams, Matthew (15 January 2016). 'Amy Liptrot interview: How the writer drowned in London - and rescued herself on the shores of Orkney'. The Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Liptrot, Amy (17 January 2016). ''I swam in the cold ocean and dyed my hair a furious blue… I was moving upwards slowly''. The Guardian. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Amy Liptrot (3 January 2019). 'From Cinderella to Patrick Melrose: the best books about new beginnings'. The Guardian.
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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 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 2016
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
New Statesman Book of the Year
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Reviews
[A] gorgeous debut. . . . Full of lucid self-discovery and shimmering prose.
[Liptrot's] prose is spare, lean, and beautiful, much like the country about which she writes.
Spectacular. . . . This magnificent memoir is a record of transformation in its truest sense
The Outrun is an astonishingly beautiful book... Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate, and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake. And yet she's also elegant, thoughtful, and controlled... A luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come.--Olivia Laing