The Outrun

Amy Liptrot

Having read it

★★★★☆

Compelling, insightful, shocking and captivating. A refreshing read of someone being human and dealing with their self-inflicted difficulties in their own way.

A good passage

[...] I didn’t want to become part of what I saw as a subtle conspiracy to present Orkney as an island paradise.

A second good passage

I realised that, because we were all addicts, the conversation had quickly developed into how much of a buzz you could get off a carrot.

A third good passage

I grew up in some extremes and later sought them for myself, unconsciously emulating unremembered experiences. Now, I still pursue heightened states but do so with greater self-knowledge. I want to have a story but I have to do it sober. I am choosing strength and beauty and creation. Like the electricity devices, I’m trying to find the right way to harness the powers and to achieve my aims without being destroyed by the very energy I desire.