H Is For Hawk [Paperback]

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson

One of theNew York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One ofKirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the 21st Century
One of theNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
One ofSlate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: includingTIME(#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR,O, The Oprah Magazine(10 Favorite Books),Vogue(Top 10),Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle(Top 10),Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune(Top 10),Library Journal(Top 10),Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews,Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)

The instantNew York Timesbestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People).H Is for Hawkis a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

HELEN MACDONALDis a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestsellingH Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titledFalcon, and three collections of poetry, includingShaler's Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with lsi