H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
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Pub Date 31 Jul 2014 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
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. 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 £800 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.
‘This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration’ Andrew Motion
‘It just sings. I couldn’t stop reading’ Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
‘Dazzling… Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence’ Financial Times
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth, Europe excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
It just sings. I couldn’t stop reading – Mark Haddon
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
This
is a book made from the heart that goes to the heart… It combines old
and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has
looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have
their life shifted. – Tim Dee
Nature-writing, but not as you know it. Astounding. - Bookseller
One of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read… A grief memoir with wings. - Bookseller
I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing. - Guardian
Marketing Plan
Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk
Author has plenty of media experience, including several programmes on hawks and falcons for BBC
James Daunt has read and is already a fan.
Massive support in-house.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448130726 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
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