H is for Hawk Paperback by Helen Macdonald

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2016-03-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143194675
• Item Weight: 306.18 grams
• Dimensions: 8.24 x 5.26 x 0.83 cm

A bestseller throughout the English-speaking world and a multiple award winner, H Is for Hawk is the exquisitely written story of one woman's journey to the limits of grief and love.

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge, embarking on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

H Is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey--an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. It's a book about memory, nature, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.

About the Author

HELEN MACDONALD is a writer, poet, and naturalist. She is the author of the bestselling and award-winning H is for Hawk and Vesper Flights, and three books of poetry, including Shaler's Fish. She's written and presented award-winning documentaries for PBS and the BBC and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine.