H is for Hawk

Now in paperback, this memoir won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Macdonald recounts how she dealt with the death of her father by training a goshawk, in a book which combines autobiography, nature writing and the exploration of myths and literature, as she weaves the story of novelist T.H. White into her narrative. 'A deeply human work shot through... with intelligence and compassion...' Melissa Harrison, }Financial Times{