Everything Book Club, "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald

This program was moved from Tuesday, February 10, to Tuesday, February 13. We hope you can still make it!

Slated for release as a major motion picture on January 26. An instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation. Recently bereaved, the author decides to adopt and raise one of nature's most vicious predators, a goshawk. She names her Mabel. By a writer, poet, and naturalist who works at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Please note: The Montclair Film Matinee Club will be meeting on February 4, at 2:30 p.m., at 505 Bloomfield Avenue to discuss the film adaptation of “H is for Hawk.” They charge a fee of $15 to participate. There will not be a screening of the film included in their session.

“Macdonald's book is so good that at times it hurt me to read it.” —The New York Times

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, and naturalist. Before becoming a full-time writer, they worked in raptor research and conservation for many years, then became a historian of science, specialising in the history of natural history, ornithology, and animal behaviour. They are an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.