H Is For Hak [Paperback]

One of theNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year

ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: includingTIME(#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR,O, The Oprah Magazine(10 Favorite Books),Vogue(Top 10),Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle(Top 10),Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune(Top 10),Library Journal(Top 10),Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews,Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)

The instantNew York Timesbestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive (People).H Is for Hawkis a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

* Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
* Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
* Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Award in Nonfiction
* The Costa Book of the Year
* Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize

Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptor’s fierce essence—and her own—with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we don’t notice their astonishing engineering. —Vicki Constantine Croke,New York Times Book Review(cover review)

Helen Macdonald’s beautiful and nearly feral book,H Is for Hawk, reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world as well. Her book is so good that, at times, it hurt me to read it. It draws blood, in ways that seem curative. . . . [An] instant classic. l³8