The Instant

Review\nA slim, luminous account of living and loving in Berlin, picking up where The Outrun left off ― Sunday Times\nI loved this book, such an intimate portrayal of emotional landscapes and the pull of the moon - it's one I'll return to often -- RAYNOR WINN\nBrilliant on the addictive bliss of romance . . . [The Instant is] a parable about the quicksands of internet dating, and a survivors' handbook 'for the heartsick' ― Telegraph\nIntoxicating, generous and refreshingly original. The way Liptrot weaves her inner life with the natural world and the digital world is utterly absorbing. This book is so alive and so wild -- LUCY JONES\nElegant, melancholic and deeply yearning, The Instant captures something vital about our age: its strange dislocations and connections. I drank it in -- KATHERINE MAY\nEnthralling and instinct-sharpening ― New Statesman\nA book of rare power. Part heartbreaking love story, part pin-sharp exploration of relationships in the digital age, The Instant is an intense and intensely beautiful book about connection, longing and the gravitational power of nature, and human nature, on the heart -- ROB COWEN\nSensuous and full of promise ― Guardian\nWildness lurks in the edges of this book - nature in its more feral state, and unashamed eroticism. I gulped this slim, powerful, ravishing little book down in one -- CAL FLYN\nAn astute exploration of longing and loneliness in a time when we've never been better connected or more distant. Most of all, I admire Amy's patience. The Instant is proof of what good can come from time, and waiting, and the thinking that accompanies both. I loved it -- ALICE VINCENT\nExperimental ― Financial Times\nA devoted observer of nature . . . The style of this book is elliptical, often reading like a diary . . . it offers a rich map of its author’s inner experience, flitting from thought to image and back to Google Earth again ... This memoir is about nature, lust and love but also redemption and healing, the story of someone who changed her life ― Irish Independent\nSarah Brocklehurst’s Brock Media optioned Amy Liptrot's first book The Outrun and will produce the film alongside Saoirse Ronan, Jack Lowden and Dominic Norris under their new shingle Arcade Pictures. Ronan is also set to star in the adaptation.\nLiptrot's prose is beautifully wrought, with plenty of observations that fellow members of the digital dating pool will empathise with ― iNews\nGlorious ― Times Literary Supplement\nThe Instant is magical, it is sexy, it is redolent of the natural world and it is all the things that makes Liptrot one of the most unique voices writing today . . . We simply cannot get enough Liptrot in our lifetimes. I want her to write a book every year ― Caught by the River\nContemplative, with flashes of grit and humour . . . remarkable ― Guardian\nLyrical . . . A beautiful, searching account of a woman's quest for fulfilment ― Buzz Magazine\nExperimental and daring . . . honest . . . this book has joys, and Liptrot has a graceful prose style ― Scotsman\nExperimental and poetic . . . [Liptrot's] an exquisite nature writer ― Orcadian\nLiptrot excels at extrapolating scientific metaphors out into emotional terrain and turning her astute insights into prose that possesses a lyrical sheen. Post-pandemic, when so much has become ‘remote', The Instant feels as though it's reporting from the frontiers of digital nomadism, describing how many of us might live, revelling in new freedoms while simultaneously drifting and weightless, aching for something to pin us down and hold us in place ― Geographical\nForensically examining love, loneliness, desire, compulsion and technology, The Instant is a short, beautiful and sometimes brutal book that illuminates the defining human experience of now: connection and disconnection. If Amy Liptrot is a nature writer, then it is human nature that occupies her. She is a literary warrior -- BENJAMIN MYERS\nThe Instant is a powerful and poignant memoir of Berlin, lov