The Outrun

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.