{"product_id":"9780143194675","title":"H is for Hawk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bestseller throughout the English-speaking world and a multiple award winner, \u003ci\u003eH Is for Hawk \u003c\/i\u003eis the exquisitely written story of one woman's journey to the limits of grief and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Goshawk\u003c\/i\u003e, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge, embarking on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eH Is for Hawk \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. It's a book about memory, nature, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Macdonald","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2016-03-01","offer_id":48100188815615,"sku":"9780143194675","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_97615767-539d-47a2-90e0-016b283ebed5.jpg?v=1769374454","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780143194675","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}