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Featherhood

$33.00

Featherhood

SKU: 9781474622424 Category: Product ID: 77767

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Title: Featherhood
Author: GILMOUR CHARLIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/09/2020
Imprint: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active

‘One of the best books I have ever read. Incredibly moving’ Elton John

‘I cant recommend it too highly’ Helen Macdonald

‘Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs’ Sunday Times

‘Where Helen Macdonald’s H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell’s My Family And Other Animals … Remarkable’ Daily Mail

‘Beautiful, wise, compassionate and powerful’ Isabella Tree



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.

ISBN: 9781474622424
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 288

Additional information

Dimensions 216 × 135 mm