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Amy Liptrot
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Dans l'oubli hypnotique des nuits londoniennes, une jeune femme noie sa solitude grâce à l'alcool. Mais au bout de dix ans de fêtes tristes, dix ans d'excès, dix ans perdus, elle est épuisée. Elle retourne alors sur son île natale, au sein de cet archipel des Orcades isolé au nord de l'Écosse. Elle échange la bouteille assassine pour la Thermos de café, la contemplation de la faune interlope pour celle des étoiles et des nuages. Elle se découvre assoiffée de grand large, de grand air, de grande beauté.
Et si le fragile râle des genêts, cet oiseau en voie d'extinction aussi farouche qu'elle, était plus fort qu'il n'y paraît ?
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Wishing to leave 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.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.
