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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Charlie Gilmour, Charlie Gilmour
• Edition: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781474609487
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0948-7
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Nature; Adoption, NATURE / Animals / Birds, PETS / Birds, NATURE / Birdwatching Guides, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Family & relationships, Advice on parenting, Care of the elderly, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Adoption & fostering, 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