{"product_id":"h-is-for-hawk","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":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47648088653962,"sku":"9780143194675","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0744\/7452\/0714\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c6071655-741d-466a-8516-dcce424f369d.jpg?v=1770342581","url":"https:\/\/curiosityhousebooks.com\/products\/h-is-for-hawk","provider":"Curiosity House Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}