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raven_morgan 's review for:
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
***An eARC was provided of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review***
This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, and well deserving of the awards that it has won.
After the death of her father, Helen Macdonald fulfils a lifelong ambition: to train a goshawk. "H is for Hawk" follows her through the training of the goshawk, whom she named Mabel, and through her own healing from grief for the loss of her father. Running parallel to Macdonald's story is the story of T.H. White and his own goshawk, Gos, which Macdonald discovered through White's book "The Goshawk".
Macdonald's use of language is absolutely wonderful - throughout the book, she evokes the English landscape so vividly that the reader might be walking along the tracks with her, their own goshawk on their glove. And Mabel herself is realised exquisitely; the reader can feel the love that Macdonald had for her goshawk, and feel the despair when Mabel is thought lost, or Macdonald doubts her own training.
I am in debt to the friends who reviewed this book and brought it to my attention. It is a glorious book full of truth and beauty, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys books about nature, animals, or simply memoirs.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, and well deserving of the awards that it has won.
After the death of her father, Helen Macdonald fulfils a lifelong ambition: to train a goshawk. "H is for Hawk" follows her through the training of the goshawk, whom she named Mabel, and through her own healing from grief for the loss of her father. Running parallel to Macdonald's story is the story of T.H. White and his own goshawk, Gos, which Macdonald discovered through White's book "The Goshawk".
Macdonald's use of language is absolutely wonderful - throughout the book, she evokes the English landscape so vividly that the reader might be walking along the tracks with her, their own goshawk on their glove. And Mabel herself is realised exquisitely; the reader can feel the love that Macdonald had for her goshawk, and feel the despair when Mabel is thought lost, or Macdonald doubts her own training.
I am in debt to the friends who reviewed this book and brought it to my attention. It is a glorious book full of truth and beauty, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys books about nature, animals, or simply memoirs.