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A review by matthewgrant
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
4.0
This book was my first full audiobook of a book I hadn't already previously read. I listened to it on long runs while training for a half-marathon. The soothing voice of Helen Macdonald helped pass a lot of those arduous miles as she transported me to lush English countrysides, telling me about how she trained her goshawk Mabel to hunt.
Macdonald's prose is extraordinary. Her sentences are full of creative description. The book weaves together a fascinating tale of Macdonald's training of her hawk, coming to terms with the death of her father, and the life of TH White, whose book on hawk training, The Goshawk, was a formative text in Macdonald's own life. You might not think at first that all of these disparate themes can possibly go together, but Macdonald achieves it in a way that feels natural and easy.
H is for Hawk is a remarkable meditation on people, nature, and the effect of death on the living.
Macdonald's prose is extraordinary. Her sentences are full of creative description. The book weaves together a fascinating tale of Macdonald's training of her hawk, coming to terms with the death of her father, and the life of TH White, whose book on hawk training, The Goshawk, was a formative text in Macdonald's own life. You might not think at first that all of these disparate themes can possibly go together, but Macdonald achieves it in a way that feels natural and easy.
H is for Hawk is a remarkable meditation on people, nature, and the effect of death on the living.