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The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a case of putting one foot in front of the other in a bleak new world or do we need something more? Reeling with grief after the sudden death of her father, Helen Macdonald found herself turning to the wild for comfort. With breathtaking honesty and insight, she recounts her months spent taming a goshawk and how, finally, this strange kinship led her to the first tentative steps to recovery.

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Recovery: Vintage Minis

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 04/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9781784875473, 978-1784875473
      ISBN10: 1784875473

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      Book Synopsis

      The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

      How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a case of putting one foot in front of the other in a bleak new world or do we need something more? Reeling with grief after the sudden death of her father, Helen Macdonald found herself turning to the wild for comfort. With breathtaking honesty and insight, she recounts her months spent taming a goshawk and how, finally, this strange kinship led her to the first tentative steps to recovery.

      Selected from H is for Hawk

      VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

      A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human.

      Discover the Vintage Minis ‘Head Space’ series:

      Therapy by Stephen Grosz
      Family by Mark Haddon



      Trade Review
      They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book * Stylist *
      Literature for the Twitter generation * Big Issue *

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