Whether it’s a single action that reverberates around a community, or the rupture of a break-up, literature is filled with memorable instants after which everything changes. Our guest this month is Amy Liptrot, who joined us from Orkney to talk about her second book The Instant, a memoir of Amy’s move from Scotland to Berlin, where she searches for racoons, tracks the moon, goes to techno clubs, looks for boyfriends, falls in love and has her heart broken. It’s also about connectivity and the instants that change our lives, and so in honour of Amy’s book our theme today is ‘the instant’ - we’ll be thinking about those moments in literature when things turn on a dime. Sit back, enjoy, and let us change the course of your life over the next hour on literary friction.

Recommendations on the theme, The Instant:

Octavia: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Carrie: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

General Recommendations:

Octavia: Body Work: the radical power of personal narrative by Melissa Febos

Amy: Time on Rock: A Climber's Route Into The Mountains by Anna Fleming

Carrie: Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl

Find a list of all recommended books at:

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/april-2022-the-instant-with-amy-liptrot

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