Be More Bird

‘A small masterpiece, written with heart, self-belief and wisdom. Wonderful!’

Paul Theroux

‘Be More Bird is a beautiful, deeply thought-provoking book filled with lessons about nature, about our relationships with the natural world and with each other. Candida writes with great joy and humility. We learn about hawks in history, language and culture, about their role in society over millennia. This partnership, between woman and hawk, is one of equality, reciprocity and mutual understanding. Candida finds freedom in a wild creature who is feral but accepts friendship. Falconry, she writes, has the power to both tame and release the wild in us. Most enchanting of all, we feel Candida’s joy as she witnesses “the flow state of creation” that is Bird in flight’

Annie Worsley

‘As a long-term admirer of Candida Meyrick’s novels I’m delighted to see her returning to print with this subtle and beguiling memoir’

DJ Taylor

‘Candida Meyrick’s lyrical account of hunting daily with her hawk is a love song to the splendour and wildness, the fragility and interdependence of life’

Geraldine Bedell

PRAISE FOR CANDIDA’S PREVIOUS WRITING:

‘Candida Clark is an author of breathtaking talent She writes like an angel’

Irish Independent

‘A treat to be lingered over…[an] intense, and profound, pleasure’

Observer

‘A taut, meticulously structured novel… Clark does Elizabeth Bowen even better than Ian McEwan in his country-house novel, Atonement’

Time Out

‘Candida Clark is one of the most gifted and prolific novelists of her generation’

Guardian

‘Hauntingly beautiful [Candida Clark has] achieved something quite extraordinary a poetical thriller and what an ending’

Mavis Cheek

I don’t think I’ve ever read a better representation of…romantic love I wish I could do that…superb ‘

Tim Pears

Be More Bird is Candida Meyrick’s first work of non-fiction. She has published six previous novels under the pen name Candida Clark and written journalism, short fiction and poetry. She has restored a five-acre historic walled garden and founded the award-winning botanical drinks business, Positive Potions, and the popular wellness destination, The Retreat, New Forest.