Helen MacDonald, "H is For Hawk" 

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When Macdonald’s father suddenly died, she felt as if she, too, had been struck down. Near despair, she turned to nature-not for comfort, but for its wild and uncompromising spirit, numbing her grief by learning the ancient skills of falconry. Now available in paperback, H is for Hawk-the Costa Book of the Year and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize-chronicles how Macdonald found companionship first with T.H. White’s The Goshawk, then with her own hawk, Mabel, learning the raptor’s ways as she emerged from a debilitating grief.
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