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Featherhood

Shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing”The best piece of nature writing since `H is for Hawk`, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years” Neil Gaiman”Wonderful – I can`t recommend it too highly” Helen Macdonald”One of those rare, enchanted books” Isabella Tree”Beautiful – it made me cry” Simon AmstellThis is a story about birds and fathers.About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour`s life – and swiftly changed it. Demanding worms around the clock, riffling through his wallet, sharing his baths and roosting in his hair…About the jackdaw kept at a Cornish stately home by Heathcote Williams, anarchist, poet, magician, stealer of Christmas, and Charlie`s biological father who vanished from his life in the dead of night.It is a story about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one`s own.It is a story about change – from wild to tame; from sanity to madness; from life to death to birth; from freedom to captivity and back again, via an insane asylum, a prison and a magpie`s nest.And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.

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