Featherhood : 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman Paperback / softback
by Charlie Gilmour
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'One of the best books I have ever read. Incredibly moving' Elton John'I cant recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs' Sunday Times'Where Helen Macdonald's H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals ...
Remarkable' Daily Mail'Beautiful, wise, compassionate and powerful' Isabella TreeThis is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it.
Demanding worms around the clock, riffling through his wallet, sharing his baths and roosting in his hair...
About the jackdaw kept at a Cornish stately home by Heathcote Williams, anarchist, poet, magician, stealer of Christmas, and Charlie's biological father who vanished from his life in the dead of night. It is a story about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one's own.
It is a story about change - from wild to tame; from sanity to madness; from life to death to birth; from freedom to captivity and back again, via an insane asylum, a prison and a magpie's nest. And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.
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- Pages:288 pages
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- Publication Date:29/09/2020
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:29/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781474622424