The release date for the English version of 'H is for Hawk' by
Helen Macdonald is Jan 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She became fluent in the jargon and studied all the classics, including "The Goshawk," the agonizing masterpiece by T.H. White about his effort to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.
She is struck dumb by sadness when her father passes away and is fixated on the thought of training her own goshawk. On a Scottish quayside, she pays £800 for Mabel and brings her back to Cambridge. Subsequently, she stocks the freezer with hawk food and disconnects the phone, prepared to start the lengthy and peculiar task of attempting to tame this most untamed creature.
Destined to be a classic of nature writing, "H is for Hawk" is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. Simultaneously, it's a multifaceted obituary of the talented and tormented writer T. H. White, most recognized for "The Once and Future King." This book explores memory, nature, and national identity as well as the possibility of finding a way to balance life, love, and death.