![]() I will be surprised if a better book that H is for Hawk is published this year." - Melissa Harrison Financial Times "I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing. ![]() ![]() The result is a deeply human work shot through.with intelligence and compassion. 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 "H is for Hawk is a dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence. An illustrated book cover about one Helen and one hawk and lost relationships and dear people. It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation. 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. She is the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shaler's Fish. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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