The Instant [Paperback]

The Sunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author of The Outrun - on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a loftbed in a shared flat and starts to look for work - and for love - through the screen of her phone.

The Instanttells of the momentous year that follows, encountering the city's wildlife in the most unexpected places, tracing the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds and surrendering to the addictive power of love and lust.

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Amy Liptrotis the author ofThe Outrun, which was aSunday Timesbestseller. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including theGuardianand theSpectator,and recently presented the BBC Radio 4 seriesThe New Anatomy of Melancholy.The Outrunwas awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.

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TheSunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author ofThe Outrun- on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital ageI loved this book, such an intimate portrayal of emotional landscapes and the pull of the moon - it's one I'll return to oftenSensuous and full of promiseA slim, luminous account of living and loving in Berlin, picking up whereThe Outrunleft offBrilliant on the addictive bliss of romance . . . [The Instantis] a parable about the quicksands of internet dating, and a survivor's handbook 'for the heartsick'Beautiful . . . brilliant . . . The truest thing I'vel“"