5/12/2023 0 Comments Helen macdonald goshawkI get that her father died and that to deal with it, because she is a falconer, her thinking was ‘escape to the wilderness’ by being with the wild, and challenging herself by raising this difficult bird - despite everyone saying not to do it. From the start, I wanted to smack the author in the head. This book seemed to be on every Best Books to Read list for 2015, so I borrowed it from the library. White’s The Goshawk and how that reflects her own training of her animal. The story is interspersed with Macdonald’s study of author T. H is for Hawk is the autobiographical story of Helen Macdonald and her goshawk, Mabel, whom she buys as a way to deal with her grief after her father dies. Or: the book that gave me the shits, but I had to keep reading it anyway.
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