The Cure for Sleep

Amy Liptrot's The Outrun is a moving and inspiring story of a woman who begins dying days into motherhood and vows to stop sleepwalking through life. She strays from the path, gets lost in the woods, and makes bargains with strangers, learning what it takes to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, and rescue.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure.


Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun.


Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams.


Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers.


As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife, and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes - and costs - to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue.

Weight: 448g
Dimension: 148 x 223 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474618076