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Scottish BookThe Outrun (Paperback)
Author: Amy Liptrot
£10.95
ScotlandSet in Northern Isles
A raw, deeply honest memoir of addiction, recovery and return to home on Orkney - describing days spent swimming in freezing seas, tracking wildlife and finding solace in wild landscapes. A perfect fit for readers who appreciate nature writing, redemption stories and quietly powerful personal journeys.
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Booksellers Notes
We see The Outrun as a thoughtful and quietly powerful book about recovery and place. It shows how careful attention to the world, and to oneself, can slowly change a life.
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At thirty, Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney feeling unmoored, back on the islands she once fled and facing the damage left by years of addiction. The Outrun begins in this fragile state, with recovery less a clear path than a series of small, deliberate acts of attention.
Days are structured by the physical world. Cold swims in the sea, long walks tracking birds, nights spent watching for the northern lights. The islands offer no easy comfort, but their scale and solitude make space for listening, both outward and inward. History, folklore, and natural science sit alongside personal reckoning, each lending a different way of understanding survival.
The Outrun is written with clarity and restraint, allowing landscape to work quietly on the mind. It resists tidy conclusions, instead tracing how healing can be slow, uneven, and deeply tied to place. What emerges is a portrait of recovery grounded in the rhythms of the natural world, and a sense of hope that feels earned rather than claimed.
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