![]() Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times Read more I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time 'This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration' Andrew Motion This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love. H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. **SELECTED BY CARIAD LLOYD ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**Īs a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Timesĭiscover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk. ![]() **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** ![]()
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