![]() And Liptrot doesn’t disappoint in her evocation of that incredible landscape. I love Orkney – it is a magical land of stone circles, enormous skies and shipwrecks where I saw one of my favourite singers in the world walk past as I was sitting on a bench eating fish and chips at the edge of the world. Liptrot is master of the extended metaphor, and the field is just one of many she employs to great effect in this, the autobiographical tale of her descent into alcoholism when she goes to London to become a music journalist and live the party lifestyle, her recovery and rehabilitation after ten years of addiction, and then her move back to the islands of her childhood to start anew. When her parents first kept a flock of sheep there, the animals were unused to the treacherous conditions and would often plunge over the edge and be lost to the sea. ![]() The outrun is a field on a cliff-edge in Orkney on the farm where Amy Liptrot grew up. ![]() Where did I get this book: A book club read ![]()
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