H Is For Hawk

Discover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk.As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Discover the memoir that inspired the major new film starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. An instant international bestseller and prize-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising a goshawk has soared into the hearts of millions of readers. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive. H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying masterpiece on grief, memory, taming and untaming, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love. 'An absolute classic of nature writing’ Guardian 'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon‘One of the best grief books ever written’ Cariad Lloyd

This is the Number One Bestseller; Winner of the Costa Book of the Year. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for GBP800 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. 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. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.