The Instant
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About This Book
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 for something to happen, hoping for the unexpected. And it comes with an erotic jolt, in the form of a love affair that obsesses her. The Instant is a frank and luscious 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 behind by a generation who exist online.
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"It is a literature produced by a writer with too many tabs open on their laptop, and because of that, it is the truest thing I've read in a long time."
"Her writing is contemplative, but comes with pleasing flashes of grit and humour ..."
"This gap could be read as a pose, a coolness, a circling over events as if from a great height."
"While it lacks the stark transcendence of The Outrun, The Instant does evocatively capture – and indeed honour – much that we try to shrug off when it comes to the often calamitous pursuit of lasting intimacy."
"The city remains at a remove ..."
"There is great depth of feeling in her writing, without ever being mawkish ..."
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