The outrun (2015)

Returning to the wind-scoured archipelago of Orkney to recover from alcoholism, Amy Liptrot immerses herself in the raw elemental rhythms of the North Atlantic. Her prose tracks corncrake surveys, winter sea swimming, and the dance of the merry dancers across subpolar skies. It is a luminous meditation on how wild topography and oceanic solitude can reconstruct a fractured self.