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A review by abi_sarah
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Very much enjoyed this book!
It felt so genuine and full of raw emotion throughout. Helen’s writing about her experiences of raising/ training a Goshawk whilst going through grief and depression was so refreshing to read, because there wasn’t any big underlying philosophical meaning. It was just a honest account of a woman’s difficult period of her life and how she coped.
I want to read more books like this, I loved visualising myself out and about with Helen and Mabel (the goshawk) just living and being.
It felt so genuine and full of raw emotion throughout. Helen’s writing about her experiences of raising/ training a Goshawk whilst going through grief and depression was so refreshing to read, because there wasn’t any big underlying philosophical meaning. It was just a honest account of a woman’s difficult period of her life and how she coped.
I want to read more books like this, I loved visualising myself out and about with Helen and Mabel (the goshawk) just living and being.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Grief