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.
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.
The Sunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author of The Outrun- on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age
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.
The Sunday Times runaway bestseller - an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney