Grove, 25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2341-1 In this elegant synthesis of memoir and literary sleuthing, an English academic finds that training a young. 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. BUY THIS BOOK H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald. 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. It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. 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. Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. 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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