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The Outrun: A Memoir
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After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney's wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her.
A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
New Statesman Book of the Year
Author: Amy Liptrot
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/24/2018
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393355598
About the Author
Liptrot, Amy: - Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist's model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire.
