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

An instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, this is a beautiful and unusual meditation on our relationship to nature for Earth Day. Recently bereaved, the author decides to adopt and raise one of nature's most vicious predators, a goshawk. She names her Mabel.

“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.