![]() ![]() She wanted to write about what happens after you get sober, she says: "That's just the beginning of the story." For Liptrot, that meant changing up her surroundings, using the stark Orkney backdrop to help her try to pinpoint her alcoholism's root cause. Liptrot had read many addiction memoirs, but found they mostly ended with the author entering rehab. ![]() (The title refers to a long stretch of cliffs on her windy home isle.) ![]() Released in the UK last year (and the US today), Liptrot's acclaimed memoir, The Outrun, documents her chaotic twenties in London, and a subsequent return to her native Orkney, the archipelago of remote islands off Scotland's north coast. To mark the occasion, she swam "in a bitterly cold reservoir at the top of a hill, because that's what I do for kicks." Plunging into freezing water is a pretty unusual hobby-she's part of a group that swims every Saturday morning no matter what the weather-but it has been a key part of Liptrot's ongoing recovery from alcoholism. "I quite enjoyed that my sobriety is tied in with the cosmos, just to be a bit megalomaniacal about it," says the 35-year-old, calling from her home in Hebden Bridge, in north-west England. A month ago-on the Spring Equinox-Amy Liptrot celebrated six years since her last drink. ![]()
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