Awards

• Short-listed for Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2022 (UK)
• Short-listed for Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing (UK).

Overview

'I loved this book' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'Utterly absorbing' - Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden Wishing to leave behind the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. Searching for new experiences, inspiration and love, she rents a loftbed in a shared flat and looks for work. She explores the streets, nightclubs and parks and seeks out the city's wildlife - goshawks, raccoons and hooded crows. She looks for love through the screen of her laptop. Over the course of a year Amy makes space hoping for the unexpected. And it comes with an erotic jolt, in the form of a love affair that obsesses her. The Instant is an unapologetic look at the addictive power of love and lust. It is also an exploration of the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds, the mesmerising power of Neolithic stonework and the trails followed by a generation who exist online.

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Praise for The Outrun: A lyrical, brave memoir. It's Liptrot's aptitude for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer * * Guardian * * Gorgeous . . . Full of lucid self-discovery and shimmering prose * * New York Times Book Review * * The sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun may even be a future classic. Wherever she journeys next, you will want to go with her * * New Statesman * * Luminous . . . Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching * * Sunday Times * * An exhilarating memoir . . . Anyone who has ever been unhappy or unwise will find much that resonates in this powerful, beautiful writing -- CATHY RENTZENBRINK * * Stylist * * Uncompromising and lyrical . . . Liptrot's writing is strong and sure * * Observer * * An astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book -- OLIVIA LAING Beautiful, stark and unflinching. Amy Liptrot is an extraordinary new voice -- JENNI FAGAN There is a great deal of frank, flinch-making writing in this book, but it is always balanced by a sublimity and graciousness that is rare. This is a bold-hearted and brave-minded book. It is both terribly sad and awfully affecting * * Scotland on Sunday * * A scintillating mix of clear-eyed insight and poetic heart . . . Amy Liptrot is the real deal, a writer whose voice seems fully formed on the page, and I can't wait to read what she writes next * * Independent on Sunday * *

'Elegant, melancholic and deeply yearning, The Instant captures something vital about our age: its strange dislocations and connections. I drank it in' - KATHERINE MAY 'Wildness lurks in the edges of this book - nature in its more feral state, and unashamed eroticism. I gulped this slim, powerful, ravishing little book down in one' - CAL FLYN 'An astute exploration of longing and loneliness in a time when we've never been better connected or more distant. Most of all, I admire Amy's patience. The Instant is proof of what good can come from time, and waiting, and the thinking that accompanies both. I loved it' - ALICE VINCENT 'The Instant is luminous, experimental - like nothing I've read before. This is a book that plays with form, blurring the borders between the emotional self and the outer world. Liprot attunes us to the scrappy, overlooked nature in our cities, and how it can help us understand ourselves even better' - JESSICA J. LEE 'The Instant is a powerful and poignant memoir of Berlin, love and the nature of heartache. I relished the intensity of this and devoured it in a single sitting' - JAMES CANTON

Elegant, melancholic, and deeply yearning, The Instant captures something vital about our age: its strange dislocations and connections. I drank it in -- KATHERINE MAY An astute exploration of longing and loneliness in a time when we've never been better connected or more distant. Most of all, I admire Amy's patience. The Instant is proof of what good can come from time, and waiting, and the thinking that accompanies both. I loved it -- ALICE VINCENT The Instant is a powerful and poignant memoir of Berlin, love and the nature of heartache. I relished the intensity of this and devoured it in a single sitting -- JAMES CANTON Praise for The Outrun: A lyrical, brave memoir. It's Liptrot's aptitude for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer * * Guardian * * Gorgeous . . . Full of lucid self-discovery and shimmering prose * * New York Times Book Review * * The sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun may even be a future classic. Wherever she journeys next, you will want to go with her * * New Statesman * * Luminous . . . Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching * * Sunday Times * * An exhilarating memoir . . . Anyone who has ever been unhappy or unwise will find much that resonates in this powerful, beautiful writing -- CATHY RENTZENBRINK * * Stylist * * Uncompromising and lyrical . . . Liptrot's writing is strong and sure * * Observer * * An astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book -- OLIVIA LAING

'I loved this book, such an intimate portrayal of emotional landscapes and the pull of the moon - it's one I'll return to often' - RAYNOR WINN 'Intoxicating, generous and refreshingly original. The way Liptrot weaves her inner life with the natural world and the digital world is utterly absorbing. This book is so alive and so wild' - LUCY JONES 'Elegant, melancholic and deeply yearning, The Instant captures something vital about our age: its strange dislocations and connections. I drank it in' - KATHERINE MAY 'A book of rare power. Part heartbreaking love story, part pin-sharp exploration of relationships in the digital age, The Instant is an intense and intensely beautiful book about connection, longing and the gravitational power of nature, and human nature, on the heart' - ROB COWEN 'Wildness lurks in the edges of this book - nature in its more feral state, and unashamed eroticism. I gulped this slim, powerful, ravishing little book down in one' - CAL FLYN 'An astute exploration of longing and loneliness in a time when we've never been better connected or more distant. Most of all, I admire Amy's patience. The Instant is proof of what good can come from time, and waiting, and the thinking that accompanies both. I loved it' - ALICE VINCENT

Author Information

Amy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Spectator, and recently presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. @amy_may | @amymayyyy

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