She returns to Orkney and finds herself increasingly obsessed with nature – birds and sheep, tides and astronomy. Needing change, Amy leaves London behind. In her book The Outrun, she describes frankly how a series of events led to a complete lack of control of her own life. Spending a decade or so in London, she leaves behind her a trail of aborted relationships and menial jobs and eventually descends into alcohol addiction. Amy moves away from her family home to London, a city as wild as the islands that she grew up on, but for different reasons. Her father lives with bi-polar disorder and is prone to manic episodes, her mother a born-again Christian. Pick up your copy on campus or read onlineĪmy Liptrot was born in Orkney, a group of islands in the north of Scotland, between the North Sea and the Atlantic.
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