Helen Macdonald is coming to the Methodist Church in Woodstock on Thursday 26 September at 6pm to talk about her new book as part of the Blenheim Palace Literary Festival. This event is a Woodstock Bookshop event but tickets must be booked through the festival, see here. If you have any difficulty booking tickets please ring us.
H is for Hawk is a beautifully written account of Helen's taming of the goshawk she calls Mabel, interwoven with fascinating comments on TH White's The Goshawk and descriptions of her grief after the sudden death of her father.
More than any other writer I know, including her beloved White, Macdonald is able to summon the mental world of a bird of prey - Mark Cocker, Guardian
H is for Hawk is a dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence...a deeply human work shot through, like cloth of gold, with intelligence and compassion – an exemplar of the mysterious alchemy by which suffering can be transmuted into beauty. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year - Melissa Harrison, Financial Times (see here for the full review)
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