Amy Liptrot - Wikipedia
WEBBiography. Amy Liptrot grew up on a farm in Orkney [3] and studied at the University of Edinburgh. [4] She lived in London for ten years, resorting to alcohol and drug use. After losing her job, her home, and her boyfriend because of her alcoholism, she returned to Orkney to rehabilitate.
The life and times of author Amy Liptrot - Scottish Field
WEBMar 27, 2020 · The journalist and author of The Outrun talks about addiction, hitting rock bottom and why leaving London to return home to Orkney saved her life. I was 18 when I went off to Edinburgh University. I could not wait to experience life in the city.
The Outrun - Wikipedia
WEBThe Outrun is a 2016 memoir by the Scottish journalist and author Amy Liptrot. It is set in Orkney, her childhood home, where she returned to rehabilitate after becoming an alcoholic in London. The book combines nature writing with self-reflection.
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WEBApr 25, 2017 · Amy Liptrot's acclaimed memoir documents her chaotic twenties in London, and subsequent return to her native Orkney after she gets sober.
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WEBJan 13, 2023 · 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.
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WEBJan 26, 2024 · Amy Liptrot's memoir-turned-movie, The Outrun, is heavily fictionalized despite her co-writing the screenplay. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Rona, a young woman seeking sobriety in her hometown in the Orkney Islands.
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun – about recovering from the alcoholism that took over her life in London in her twenties by returning to the Orkneys where she had grown up and embracing the natural life of the islands …
The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot - Goodreads
WEBDec 31, 2015 · Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid the luminous Orkney landscape. Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the city.
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WEBJan 22, 2016 · After drink and drugs tore her apart in London, Amy Liptrot retreated to her parents' sheep farm on Orkney to start a new life of sobriety.
Saoirse Ronan and Amy Liptrot talk ‘The Outrun’
WEBJan 28, 2024 · Liptrot, director Nora Fingscheidt (“The Unforgivable”) and leading lady Saoirse Ronan (“Foe”) sat down on Friday morning at the Chase Sapphire Lounge at the festival to discuss their highly personal film that tackles alcoholism, recovery and …