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H is for Hawk is Helen Macdonald’s memoir of the year she spent training a goshawk after the death of her father. Alisdair Macdonald, a respected photojournalist, died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. Helen had been a falconer for many years, and she bought a young goshawk to help her through her grief.
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