After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks along
After a childhood spent on an island in northern Scotland, and shaped as much by her father’s mental illness as by the cycle of the seasons on their sheep farm, Amy Liptrot longed to escape her remote
Lockley was a hugely influential figure in natural history and was lauded by Sir Peter Scott and Richard Adams, the author ofWatership Down, who also used him as a character in his book The Plague Dog
