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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)
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Discovery Miles 3 710
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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)
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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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