A review by kyms
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

2.0

I listened to this book about a young woman who acquires a hawk to train the same time her father passes away. The reader was the author and I thought she did an excellent job reading the book. The book, however, left me confused. There seems to be a parallel author study of T.A. White going on through the book. I get that he was a fellow raptor-trainer, but I don't get why he was such an important part of this book. In fact, as a slice of life, we can see this young girl's pain at the loss of her father and her frustration in training her first hawk. But, that is it. That is all there is. I didn't really see the point. The descriptions were wonderful. It was description after description. I still am wondering what the point was.