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

    Number of Pages: 144

    Non Fiction , Biography

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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.

    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

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