![]() ![]() Her descriptive writing of the islands and their wildlife absolutely sizzles, a scintillating mix of clear-eyed insight and poetic heart. The Outrun, her beautiful first book, gives a wonderfully evocative account of both, blending searing memoir with sublime nature writing, and coming up with a unique piece of prose that amounts to a stirring personal philosophy of how to live. ![]() ![]() ![]() It may even be a future classic.Īmy Liptrot has lived her life on the edge of things, both literally and metaphorically. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun equals works by fellow islanders such as George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies. He sheer sensuality of Liptrot’s prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Luminous.… Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching. Uncompromising and lyrical … The Outrun is a bright addition to the exploding genre of writing about place and our place in the natural world.Ī lyrical, brave memoir.… It’s this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer-and one to watch. Lyrical, transitioning from the rush of drinking into the raw sensations of island life. A stunning, wild, and gracefully rendered account of life in the Scottish hinterlands. ![]()
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