H is for Hawk, winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award, is Helen Macdonaldâs memoir, written following the death of her father. Here she describes how she came to terms with her sense of loss by buying and training a young goshawk named Mabel.
This was by no means an easy task as goshawks have a reputation for being unruly. But…