H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk
paperback
Published:
26 February, 2015
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Description
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
Prizes
Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK),Winner of Costa Biography Award 2015 (UK),Short-listed for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099575450 |
| ISBN10 | 0099575450 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 260 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. -- Andrew Motion
I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing. -- Nick Barley * Guardian *
I can't remember the last time a book made me feel so many different things in such quick succession. -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian *
Nature-writing, but not as you know it. Astounding. * Bookseller *
Astounding. * Bookseller *
A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone... Fascinating. -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
A soaring triumph. -- Christian House * Daily Telegraph *
Beautiful. * Sport *
Vivid and fascinating. -- James Attlee * Independent *
Soars beyond genres, and burns with emotional and intellectual intensity. * Nature *
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Author's Bio
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.