Helen Macdonald's memoir H is for Hawk is a flying lesson in grief

By Linda Morris
Updated April 7 2015 - 10:28am, first published March 28 2015 - 12:15am
Author Helen Macdonald.
 Photo: Theresa Ambrose
Author Helen Macdonald. Photo: Theresa Ambrose
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
Author Helen Macdonald.
 Photo: Theresa Ambrose
Author Helen Macdonald. Photo: Theresa Ambrose
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
Author Helen Macdonald.
 Photo: Theresa Ambrose
Author Helen Macdonald. Photo: Theresa Ambrose
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
Author Helen Macdonald.
 Photo: Theresa Ambrose
Author Helen Macdonald. Photo: Theresa Ambrose
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Cape, $34.99 Photo: Susan Wyndham
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Cape, $34.99 Photo: Susan Wyndham
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.
<i>H Is for Hawk</i> by Helen Macdonald.

Mabel, the heroine of Helen Macdonald's acclaimed memoir of grief, H Is for Hawk, is dead. Two autumns ago the goshawk succumbed to a virulent, airborne fungal disease in her aviary while on loan to a captive-breeding program in Cheshire.

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