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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 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R371
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Featherhood - 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read...

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 (Hardcover)

Charlie Gilmour

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Loot Price R371 Discovery Miles 3 710

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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 Tree This 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. 'An incisive, funny and at times traumatic study of the damage done by destructive father-son relationships and the struggle to smash generational cycles' Evening Standard 'A personal reckoning which is simultaneously brutal and joyous. I was entranced' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'A beautiful book - it made me cry' Simon Amstell

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Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2020
First published: 2019
Authors: Charlie Gilmour
Dimensions: 220 x 140 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0947-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the elderly
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Intergenerational relationships
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Birds & birdwatching
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
LSN: 1-4746-0947-3
Barcode: 9781474609470

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