What is interesting is her choice of bird: a goshawk-one of the wildest, most difficult to train of raptors. She knew that the kind of concentration required to train a hawk would be the best possible distraction for her. She had been working with raptors since childhood and was already an accomplished falconer. This is not as strange as it might sound to a non-falconer. What makes H is for Hawk special is how Helen Macdonald chose to deal with the grief she felt after her father’s death-by dropping out of human society and spending months alone, training and hunting with a hawk.
Macdonald was devastated by the sudden loss of her father, Alisdair Macdonald, with whom she had shared a love of nature as a child.
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