A review by hayesstw
The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson

3.0

Set in an imaginary kingdom about 3000 years ago (to judge by the technology and social system) a 13-year-old boy who has been training to become a priest of the hawk-god Gdu rescues a sacrificial hawk belonging to an untameable species from a ceremony and inadvertently gets involved in political and religious intrigues of his time. But at root it is a story of a boy and a hawk.