![]() ![]() There's quite a lot in my first book about how that physical geography shaped me, but also about the emotional geography of my family and my parents - and how that perhaps went on to manifest later in my life. "I grew up in the Orkney Islands at the north of Scotland, on a sheep farm on the Atlantic Coast, edged by cliffs and looking out to the ocean. ![]() Liptrot spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from her home in Yorkshire, England. ![]() She also reflects on the digital world and its growing place in our lives - from an app that traces the phases of the moon to following her lost love on social media. In Liptrot's latest book, The Instant, she focuses on a single year spent in Berlin and her experience there of urban wildlife and a broken romance. ![]() She describes that journey in her bestselling 2015 book, The Outrun, which won awards for both memoir and works about conservation and nature. Amy Liptrot writes about extremes - from growing up on a cliffside farm in Scotland's rugged Orkney Islands, to her struggles with alcoholism while living a wild life in London in her 20s.įollowing rehab, she returned to Orkney, finding solace in the natural environment - and a new sense of self. ![]()
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