H is for Hawk

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER

'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times

Informationen zum Autor Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine , and lives in Suffolk. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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.

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WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER

'Dazzling Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times

Autorentext
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk.

Klappentext

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

Zusammenfassung
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.