Featherhood

''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 Amstell ''I was entranced'' Cathy Rentzenbrink This 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.

Product details

• Authors: Charlie Gilmour, Charlie Gilmour
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2021
• Subject: Guides > Nature
• EAN: 9781474609487
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0948-7
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.8 x 2 cm
• Subjects: Adoption, Model, Pink Floyd, NATURE / Animals / Birds, Birds, elton john, Helen Macdonald, Birdwatching, PETS / Birds, Carnage, ME, NATURE / Birdwatching Guides, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Elton, Bassist, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Cathy Rentzenbrink, David Gilmour, Robert Macfarlane, Matt Haig, Family & relationships, Advice on parenting, Vice, Care of the elderly, Rocketman, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wild Animals, BENZENE, Adoption & fostering, Tara Westover, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Birds, Including Cage Birds, As Pets, Father’s Day, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, The Wild Silence, Max Porter, grief, Cenotaph, merlin sheldrake, James Rebanks, Corvus, Educated, animal sciences, h is for hawk, wilding isabella tree, grief is the thing with feathers, reasons to stay alive, on chapel sands, laura cumming, jon ronson, Entangled Life, English Pastoral, the salt path, Underland, Sophie Heawood, vesper flights, the last act of love, simon amstell, the goshawk, family relationship, The One Show, The Man Who Lives With a Magpie, Birdwatching Holidays, raynor wynn, th white, the consequences of love, glorious rock bottom, Esther Woolfson, student riots, Wandsworth Prison, parenting school-age children, Parenting Emotions & Feelings, salt path sequel, t.h. white, aging parents & eldercare, raynor winn books, james rebanks books, @magpiedaily, hangover games, parenting babies and toddlers, gavanndra hedge, BBC3