Macdonald, Helen. 1970- creator author. text nyu New York Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic [2014] 2014 2014 monographic eng

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300 pages ; 22 cm. H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey--an honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T.H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. Part I. Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat -- Part II. Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth -- Postscript. Helen Macdonald. Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297). Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014. Macdonald, Helen 1970- White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury) 1906-1964 Falconry Goshawk Grief Spirituality QL696.F32 M33 2014 598.944 B 9780802123411 UKMGB 150728 20250703102113.0 883651136 eng