H is for Hawk

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 MotionI’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 *

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.

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