Liptrot realises she’s become totally messed-up, and knows she has to do something about it.Īlthough quite a bit of the book is set on the remote, wind-swept Orkney Islands, The Outrun is very much a twenty-first-century memoir. But The Outrun is also very different from Macdonald’s and Mabey’s books. In Liptrot’s case, the re-engagement was with Orkney.
In some ways, The Outrun reminded me of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure, both of which describe overcoming depression by re-engaging with the natural world. Scary stuff too, for those of us who still enjoy what we like to think of as a social drink. Retrospective confessional, pulling no punches. At times, I cringed at Liptrot’s honesty, as she described the gradual degeneration of her social drinking into alcoholic abandon. The Outrun is an account of Amy Liptrot’s descent into alcoholism, having left her native Orkney for the bright lights of London, and her gradual recovery, first in London, then in Orkney.
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