Featherhood

Featherhood

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir, Relationships & Sex | Paperback Published on: 18/03/2021
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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021

'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly.' - Helen Macdonald, author of H is For Hawk

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.

  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781474609487
  • Number of pages: 288
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 24 mm