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Liptrot, Amy

Amy Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm. Since returning to Orkney three years ago, she has spent summers working for the RSPB and winters living on the tiny island of Papa Westray where she has been writing her first book, The Outrun.

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The Green Notebook

Amy Liptrot on Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

It might be irresponsible to recommend Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy (1964) to youngsters today, with its sulky, unrepentant heroine who snoops on neighbours and whose notebook entries result in her losing friends. They might like it as much as I did. My copy, kept safe through house sales and moves and decades, is the only childhood book I still have, my best and most important. I’ve written inside the front cover: ‘Amy M. Liptrot, Private Spy. This book is totally brilliant!’

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