**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**
**WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE
TRANGER**
'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and
blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.
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. At a
time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between
human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent.
*Andrew Motion*
I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature
writing.
*Guardian*
I can't remember the last time a book made me feel so many
different things in such quick succession.
*Guardian*
Nature-writing, but not as you know it. Astounding.
*Bookseller*
Astounding.
*Bookseller*
A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone...
Fascinating.
*Mail on Sunday*
A soaring triumph.
*Daily Telegraph*
Beautiful.
*Sport*
Vivid and fascinating.
*Independent*
Soars beyond genres, and burns with emotional and intellectual
intensity.
*Nature*
A soliloquy that sings from the pages. Truly beautiful.
*Twitter*
Heartbreaking.
*Grazia*
Macdonald makes nature writing new.
*For Books Sake*
Unusual and incredibly moving.
*Twin Magazine*
A masterpiece.
*Patricia Nicol*
Never has the eye of a raptor assumed such fearful, beautiful
meaning.
*New Statesman*
Big-hearted, joyful and blazing with gorgeous descriptions of
nature, H is for Hawk is an unusual but very special memoir.
*Good Housekeeping*
Lyrical, headlong, humourous.
*New Statesman*
As phenomenal, unusual, moving and agile as a fearsome bird of
prey.
*Monocle*
An elegant, disturbing and heart-warming book.
*Wharfedale Observer*
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