[BOOK|EPUB] H Is for Hawk
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I start back to the house. Mabel knows there are pheasants in there; woodpigeons, too, and rabbit-holes along the ditch. Turning into an animal can imperil the human soul.
And slowly, as the minutes pass, her predatory fire cools. But then he breaks stride, turns back, and stops ten feet from us.
Questions? - And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.
Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and Hawi, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love. At a time of very distinguished writing Haqk the relationship H Is for Hawk human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. The result is a deeply human work shot through. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year.