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Helen Macdonald


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Chertsey, Surrey, The United Kingdom
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Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, and naturalist. They are the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk and Vesper Flights along with Shaler’s Fish, a history of falconry, and two other books of poetry. They've written and presented award-winning TV documentaries for PBS and the BBC. Prophet is their first novel. ...more

Average rating: 3.77 · 80,139 ratings · 11,216 reviews · 21 distinct worksSimilar authors
H is for Hawk

3.74 avg rating — 72,002 ratings — published 2014 — 100 editions
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Vesper Flights

4.11 avg rating — 6,857 ratings — published 2020 — 45 editions
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Falcon

3.76 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Shaler's Fish

3.06 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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Recovery: Vintage Minis

3.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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The Falcon and the Hawk

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011
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Through the Wire

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Witchcraft Accusations from...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating5 editions
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Wozu Vögel, Bücher, Jazz? G...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005
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Midway

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2021
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“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“Here’s a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It’s from the Old English bereafian, meaning ‘to deprive of, take away, seize, rob’. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn’t to be shared, no matter how hard you try.”
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

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