Dear all,
I'm thrilled to let you know that The Outrun by Amy Liptrot has won the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize for last year’s best memoir!
It was praised by the judges for being written with “clarity and invention”. Peter Parker, chair of the judges, said: “In this exhilarating and rigorously unsentimental memoir, Amy Liptrot describes returning to her native Orkney after her life catastrophically unravels in London. Liptrot writes with wonderful clarity and invention about the experiences of being an alcoholic and about her immersive encounters with the weather, landscape, seascape and wildlife of the remote northern archipelago in which she starts to put her life back together.”
You can read more about the judges’ speech in this article in the Bookseller:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/amy-liptrot-awarded-pen-ackerley-prize-2017-583971