The book reached The Sunday Times best-seller list within two weeks of being published in July 2014. Having been a falconer for many years, she purchased a young goshawk to help her through the grieving process. Her father, Alisdair Macdonald, was a respected photojournalist who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. H is for Hawk tells Macdonald's story of the year she spent training a northern goshawk in the wake of her father's death.
It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award, among other honours.
H is for Hawk is a 2014 memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. Weaving together obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history, H Is for Hawk is a distinctive, surprising blend of nature writing and memoir from a very gifted writer.Samuel Johnson Prize, Costa Book of the Year Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity.īy turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement, a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, and the story of an eccentric falconer and legendary writer. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.
An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.
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