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H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
📝Memoir~300 pages
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After her father's sudden death, a historian and lifelong falconer buys a goshawk and sets about training it, retreating into a demanding craft of jesses, weights and patience. Braided through her account is the story of an earlier writer who attempted the same thing and made a mess of it, and a portrait of the English countryside seen at hawk height. Precise, strange and unsentimental about grief, the book reads as nature writing, biography and self-examination at once, held together by a voice that watches everything, including itself, very closely.
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