Amy Liptrot
1) The outrun
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Shortlisted for the 2017 Ondaatje Prize, Shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Prize
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers...