H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald was devastated when her father died. But she found solace in training a fearsome predator, a goshawk. Resolving to master the hawk's ferocity and make the animal her own, she turned to T. H. White's chronicle The Goshawk for guidance and discovered her captivation with the bird mirrored her love of literature. Her journey to tame the hawk tested the limits of her humanity and changed the way she viewed life forever.