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Award-Winning Memoir

H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

Audiobook Narrated by Helen Macdonald 11 hrs and 5 mins

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When Helen Macdonald's father dies unexpectedly, her grief propels her towards a strange and ancient solution: she decides to train one of nature's most ferocious predators, a Northern goshawk. This extraordinary memoir chronicles her journey into the wild heart of falconry, where the fierce daily struggle to tame her hawk becomes inseparable from her own struggle with loss.

Weaving together natural history, memoir, and the story of T.H. White's own troubled relationship with a goshawk, Macdonald creates a meditation on grief, obsession, and our relationship with the natural world. Her prose is both unflinching and lyrical as she explores how training a killer predator became an unexpected path through mourning, revealing profound truths about wildness, freedom, and what it means to be human.