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10 QUESTIONS: HELEN MACDONALD H is for Hawk is Macdonald's account of her struggle with her grief at her father's death while she was training to become a falconer. She answers our 10 questions about her work. Where did the title come from? I fretted about it for months because none of the titles I came up with worked. Then one morning H is for Hawk dropped into my head as I was kneeling on the carpet trying to fix a broken wifi router. And that was it. It felt perfect because this is a book about an education, about how I learned how to live in an unfamiliar world after my father’s death. H is for hawk, and for Helen, and for human, for heart and hope and home.  READ MORE >

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