H is for Hawk

This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. -- Andrew Motion I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing. -- Nick Barley * Guardian * I can't remember the last time a book made me feel so many different things in such quick succession. -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian * Nature-writing, but not as you know it. Astounding. * Bookseller * Astounding. * Bookseller * A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone... Fascinating. -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * A soaring triumph. -- Christian House * Daily Telegraph * Beautiful. * Sport * Vivid and fascinating. -- James Attlee * Independent * Soars beyond genres, and burns with emotional and intellectual intensity. * Nature * A soliloquy that sings from the pages. Truly beautiful. -- Rufus the Hawk * Twitter * Heartbreaking. * Grazia * Macdonald makes nature writing new. * For Books Sake * Unusual and incredibly moving. * Twin Magazine * A masterpiece. -- Metro * Patricia Nicol * Never has the eye of a raptor assumed such fearful, beautiful meaning. -- Philip Hoare * New Statesman * Big-hearted, joyful and blazing with gorgeous descriptions of nature, H is for Hawk is an unusual but very special memoir. * Good Housekeeping * Lyrical, headlong, humourous. -- Iain Finlayson * New Statesman * As phenomenal, unusual, moving and agile as a fearsome bird of prey. * Monocle * An elegant, disturbing and heart-warming book. * Wharfedale Observer *