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H is for Hawk

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Shortlisted for the The Bookseller Book of the Year 2015.

Winner of the Costa Book of the year 2014.

Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2014.

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014.

Owning and training a hawk has been a life-long dream for Helen Macdonald, she accomplishes her dream as she tries to deal with the anguish of her father’s death. She buys a Goshawk, Mabel and the monumental task of training of this wild bird begins. There are some heart in the mouth moments, sadness too not only in her own grief but the tortured soul of T H White, the author who inspired her with Goshawk, his own record of trying to train a Goshawk.  A compelling story that follows Helen Macdonald from dark to light in her quest to let go and become as one with the hawk. ~ Sue Baker

 

The Costa Judges said Macdonald's book was “a beautifully-layered memoir centred on nature and survival in superlative and original prose.”

 

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