And that in some ways was pretty dangerous. There are so many books that take the form of people striking out into the wild … but I guess what I did is a bit weirder: I brought wildness inside my house. I can’t imagine having a raptor in my living room. I think what’s happened is that people who wouldn’t normally be attracted by nonfiction or attracted by grief memoirs or by hawks - they come to it because of one strand of the book, and then they find it interesting, too, hopefully. It’s a brilliant book, and I love that readers have been so receptive to a nonfiction, semi-historical, biographical nature book.
FEATHERED FRIEND: Author Helen Macdonald and her goshawk, Mabel, train on a green behind Cambridge University. This is a book for anyone who’s ever wanted to escape their life or any bad circumstances or bad times.’” In other words, everyone. Macdonald elaborated, “A woman said to me once, ‘This is a book that isn’t just for someone who’s interested in birds or had a big loss or someone who wants to know about the English countryside. It’s no wonder, really, as H Is for Hawk is a tantalizing, multipronged story that explores our relationship to nature, lays bare the grief of a loved one’s passing, and gives fascinating insight into the influential, troubled author T.H. “So it’s all been a bit of a shock that it’s gone so well.” In fact, since publication in 2014, the book has been a New York Times best seller, was named Costa Book of the Year, and garnered Macdonald the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize. OL17110026W Page_number_confidence 93.44 Pages 322 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200102222954 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 674 Scandate 20191223205550 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099575450 Tts_version 3.“I remember pacing up and down my room in an agony of worry because I really thought that my publisher would hate it and no one would read it,” confessed H Is for Hawk author Helen Macdonald in a recent phone interview with The Santa Barbara Independent.
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