{"product_id":"h-is-for-hawk-9780099575450","title":"H is for Hawk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Macdonald\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eVesper Flights\u003c\/i\u003e. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt just \u003ci\u003esings\u003c\/i\u003e. I couldn’t stop reading. -- Mark Haddon\u003cbr\u003eThis beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. -- Andrew Motion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence… The result is a deeply human work shot through…with intelligence and compassion… I will be surprised if a better book than \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e is published this year. -- Melissa Harrison * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eI'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing. -- Nick Barley * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eI can't remember the last time a book made me feel so many different things in such quick succession. -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e[Macdonald’s] descriptive writing, startlingly and devilishly precise…is only the half of it. She has written her taming of Mabel like a thriller, slowly and carefully cranking the tension is that your stomach and heart leap queasily towards each other… Captivates. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eCaptivating… There is a highly polished brilliance to her writing. The English-speaking world has an old passion for books about creatures and captivating companions … Helen Macdonald looks set to revive the genre. -- Guardian * Mark Cocker *\u003cbr\u003eNature-writing, but not as you know it. Astounding. * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a mark of Macdonald’s achievement that so exultant a book can resolve itself in a sense of failure, yet leave the reader as uplifted as a raptor riding on a thermal. -- Philip Hoare * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eMacDonald’s prose is poetic, forensic, yet often capable of quickening the pulse. Her lexicon…is vivid and joyous, soaring as freely as birds do. -- Benjamin Myers * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read… A grief memoir with wings. -- Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eWhat she has achieved is a very rare thing in literature - a completely realistic account of a human relationship with animal consciousness… It is a soaring performance and Mabel is the star. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eCunningly plaited and – almost – devastating… It deserves to sell shedloads and win prizes, it is naturalist writing of that spectacular quality that is literature too. -- Angus Clarke * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA wondrous book of loss and recovery… When [Macdonald] matches her factual know-how…with her poet’s eye, it is excellent… An exceptional book of twisted growth. -- Tim Dee * National *\u003cbr\u003eAbsorbing…  This memoir is lit with flashes of that grace, a grace that sweeps down to the reader to hold her wrist tight with beautiful, terrible class. The discovery of the season. -- Erica Wagner * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eAstounding. * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003ePeople talk about books that change your life. I loved the fact that this book does something much more valuable. It doesn’t change anything. It leaves everything just where it was, only more so; more distinct, more itself. It opens your eyes. And it deepens what we have always known; that we live side by side with each other, as we do with the creatures around us. -- Laura Beatty * Caught by the River *\u003cbr\u003eA talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone... Fascinating. -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eMesmerising, decisive and devastating… Her description of Mabel in flight should be etched into every birdwatcher's field guide... Macdonald is a nature writer supreme, arguably the best practitioner of this art form writing today. -- Stuart Winter * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eA soaring triumph. -- Christian House * Daily Telegraph *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732307259735,"sku":"9780099575450","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099575450.jpg?v=1719996350","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/h-is-for-hawk-9780099575450","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}