Part rehab memoir, part travelogue about the wildlife and crashing waves of the Orkneys, Amy Liptrot’s 2016 book The Outrun won prizes and rave reviews, because Liptrot was gesturing to grander horizons than her own personal redemption.

The addict is Rona (Saoirse Ronan), whose life in London as a microbiologist and relationship with a kind boyfriend (Paapa Essiedu) is destroyed through the lens of alcohol. We are shown bar fights and their resulting wounds as well as "near sexual assault" as her grip on reality is slowly washed down the drain.

Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona (an fictionalised avatar for Liptrot, who co-authored the screenplay with director Nora Fingscheidt), an Orkney Islander whose hedonistic student lifes

Saoirse Ronan is Rona, a character based on Liptrot, who grows up on a farm on the main island in Orkney, with English parents. Her sense of always being slightly on the periphery of things is exacerbated by her father’s (Stephen Dillane) bipolar diagnosis and her mother’s (Saskia Reeves) evangelical Christianity.

Ever since she announced herself as one to watch with her Oscar-nominated turn in Atonement at the age of just 13, Saoirse Ronan has established herself as one of the world's finest working actors. In subsequent years,

Saoirse Ronan plays to all her greatest strengths in this stark addiction drama - 4/5 The Oscar nominee plays a woman who returns to her hometown of Orkney to get clean following years of excess in Lo

In 2016, Amy Liptrot made a fine publishing debut with a memoir about her alcoholism, The Outrun. Now she has co-written a film based on her book that is a significant achievement in its own right. It’s also the promising debut of Saoirse Ronan and her husband actor Jack Lowden as producers.

An emotive turn from the Irish actor is matched by Nora Fingscheidt’s fluent direction while adapting Amy Liptrot’s memoir