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H is for Hawk

H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk (Macdonald novel).jpg
Author Helen Macdonald
Genre Memoir
Publisher Jonathan Cape
Publication date
2014
Pages 300 pp.
Awards Samuel Johnson Prize, Costa Book of the Year
ISBN
OCLC 898117636

H is for Hawk is a memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award among other honours.

H is for Hawk tells Macdonald's story of the year she spent training a goshawk in the wake of her father's death. Her father, Alisdair Macdonald, was a respected photojournalist who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. Having been a falconer for many years, she purchased a young goshawk to help her through the grieving process.

The book reached the The Sunday Times best-seller list within two weeks of being published in July 2014.

In an interview with The Guardian, Macdonald said, "While the backbone of the book is a memoir about that year when I lost my father and trained a hawk, there are also other things tangled up in that story which are not memoir. There is the shadow biography of TH White, and a lot of nature-writing, too. I was trying to let these different genres speak to each other."

Judges of the Samuel Johnson Prize specifically highlighted that marriage of genres as one of the reasons for selecting H is for Hawk as the winner.


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