Amy Liptrot Knihy

The Sunday Times runaway bestseller - an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney

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

In this award-winning memoir, Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after years in London, confronting her addiction. Amidst the island's stunning nature, she finds healing through swimming, wildlife observation, and stargazing, ultimately rediscovering hope and renewal in her life. Now a major film starring Saoirse Ronan.

The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new understanding of the world from the ruins of his grief. In The Weatherhouse , Nan Shepherd paints an exquisite portrait of a community coming to terms with the brutal losses of war, and the small tragedies, yearnings, and delusions that make up a life. The second installment in The Grampian Quartet, The Weatherhouse is widely considered Shepherd's masterpiece and one of the most important works of Scottish modernism.

Amy Liptrot möchte das einsame Leben auf den Orkneyinseln hinter sich lassen und bucht einen One-Way-Flug nach Berlin. Sie mietet ein Hochbett in einer WG und beginnt, mit ihrem Handy nach Arbeit – und Liebe – zu suchen. »Wilde Geschöpfe« erzählt von einem bewegten Jahr in Berlin, in dem Amy der Tierwelt der Stadt an völlig unerwarteten Orten begegnet, den Zyklen des Mondes und den Flugbahnen der Zugvögel folgt. Sie erlebt die Einsamkeit des Online-Datings in der Wildnis der Großstadt und gibt sich der berauschenden Macht von Liebe und Lust hin.