Amy Liptrot
“The last two years stretch and glitter behind me like the wake of the ferry. The powers are churning inside me.”
Photo Credit: Lisa Swarna Khanna
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. The Outrun was awarded the 2016 Wainwright Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Prize.
The Outrun
The Sunday Times runaway bestseller – an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney
Amy Liptrot on writing her way home
“I enjoyed this book enormously, even as I worried about its brave but vulnerable author, struggling to reach the good life for which her parents once went in search.”
Will Self
The Guardian
“The truest thing I’ve read in a long time”
A wonderful review of Amy Liptrot’s The Instant in the New York Times:
“It feels revelatory to read serious, thoughtful writing on the sorts of experiences that so rarely receive it. The book is particularly sharp on the agony of a relationship’s aftermath in a digital age. At one point, Liptrot refers to the German word Fernweh (distance pain), which describes a reverse homesickness that makes you long for somewhere else. The Instant is the most elegant examination of the internet’s distance pain I have ever read.”
Evie Wyld
New York Times
“A lot of nature writing is quite chaste, so I wanted to put the sex into nature writing. So humans as animals, and human instincts, and how the internet and digital technology allows us to amplify our animal instincts is of interest to me, in terms of searching for things, in terms of sexual opportunities, in terms of seasons.”
Amy Liptrot has been interviewed in the Guardian ahead of publication of her new book The Instant. You can also read an extract from the book.
Guardian
The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island & city, & about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind and the moon to restore life & renew hope