Amy Liptrot

The Outrun


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      Published in Great Britain in 2016 by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2016 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Amy Liptrot 2016

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 422 9

      eISBN 978 1 78211 549 6

      Typeset in Bembo Std by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

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      CONTENTS

GLOSSARY
PROLOGUE
1THE OUTRUN
2TREMORS
3FLOTTA
4LONDON FIELDS
5NIGHTBIKE
6FLITTING
7WRECKED
8TREATMENT
9DRIFTING
10DYKING
11AMBERGRIS
12ABANDONED ISLANDS
13LAMBING
14THE CORNCRAKE WIFE
15ROSE COTTAGE
16PAPAY
17MERRY DANCERS
18NORTH HILL
19ONLINE
20SEA SWIMMING
21THE HOLM
22PERSONAL GEOLOGY
23TRIDUANA
24FAIR ISLE
25BONFIRE
26UNDERSEA
27STRANDINGS
28RENEWABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      GLOSSARY

      bonxie: great skua

      burn: stream

      byre: barn

      caddie lamb: orphan lamb, reared by bottle

      clapshot: mashed mixed neeps and tatties

      dyke: drystone wall

      geo: narrow inlet of sea in cliffs

      grimlins: midsummer night sky

      haar: sea fog

      hillyans: mythical hill folk

      holm (pr. ‘home’): offshore islet

      kirk: church

      kye: cattle

      lum: chimney

      lum reekin: chimney smoke

      Merry Dancers: Northern Lights

      midden: muck heap

      muckle: big

      neep: turnip

      noust: hollow for storing small boats

      peedie: small

      selkie: seal

      spoot: razor clam

      steamer: ferry boat steamin’/blazin’/guttered: drunk

      steeves: stone structures for building stooks

      stooks: stacks of grain

      swappin’ for auks: hunting seabirds

      tangles: seaweed

      tattie: potato

      trows/trowies: trolls

      teeicks: lapwings

      tystie: black guillemot

      whaups: curlews

      yole: simple boat

      PROLOGUE

      UNDER WHIRRING HELICOPTER BLADES, a young woman holds her newborn baby as she is pushed in a wheelchair along the runway of the island airport to meet a man in a straitjacket being pushed in a wheelchair from the other direction.

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