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H Is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk( )
Author: Macdonald, Helen
ISBN:978-1-59413-931-4
Publication Date:Feb 2016
Publisher:Thorndike Press
Imprint:Large Print Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.99
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A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickWinner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson PrizeNamed the Costa Book of the YearWhen Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. She adopted Mabel, turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T. H....
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Macdonald, Helen (Author)


Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist and academic at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of H is for Hawk, which won the Samuel Johnson prize. This book is a depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007 and how she bounced back through falconry. H is for Hawk, which has just won the £20,000 prize, describes the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk. She writes about subsuming her grief in the relationship with the bird and trying to be like her: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. Her book is the first memoir to win the prize. She will be at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival in 2015.

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