H Is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald
@HelenJMacdonald

One of the New York Times Book Review‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Slate‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)

The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.  Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel’s temperament mirrors Helen’s own state of grief after her father’s death, and together raptor and human “discover the pain and beauty of being alive” (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

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Interview with the Author

Podcast art for Aloud at the Los Angeles Public Library PodcastALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk
4/4/16        72 min

Podcast art for London Review BookshopLondon Review Bookshop
H is for Hawk: Helene Macdonald and Tim Dee
8/8/14        56 min

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