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After spending a decade partying in London, the author returns to her birthplace to recover from alcohol addiction. Orkney, a group of islands north of Scotland, is a lonely place with more birds than people. With occasional flashbacks to her childhood and her life in London, Liptrot writes about her new life and powers greater than herself: weather, nature, history. I enjoyed learning about this remote part of the world where the wind is always blowing, and I admire Liptrot’s determination to f
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On one hand this is a memoir about a young woman's struggle with alcohol and substance abuse, and her subsequent recovery, and on the other hand it's nature writing focused around her life growing up on Orkney, and her return to the island as part of her rehabilitation. The issue is that it only needs to be one of those things. At several points it felt like a really interesting book about alcoholism that someone had shoehorned a list of wildflowers into during the edit. Frustrating.
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