H is for Hawk
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:26th Feb '15
Should be back in stock very soon
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** 'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times
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 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 *
- Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK)
- Winner of Costa Biography Award 2015 (UK)
- Short-listed for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 (UK)
ISBN: 9780099575450
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 262g
320 pages