Helen Macdonald's father dies and it is like a punch to the gut. She isolates herself and wallows in grief. During that time, she adopts a goshawk, Mabel, and pretty much turns everything else off in her life and spends time communing with the bird. An experienced falconer, she has never trained a goshawk before. They are supposedly difficult as detailed in a book she read from childhood, The Goshawk by T. H. White. White's struggles are distant but familiar. She revels in reading about his mistakes but makes a few of her own. A bit of a memoir of grief, a bit of an adventure story and a little history, this book has something for almost everyone.
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