![]() ![]() But her strongest lines trace the visual details that honor her father's profession. These early lessons persist: Macdonald’s language is mostly technical and restrained. ![]() Her father never questioned his daughter’s Victorian interests rather he taught her falconry terminology and patience on bird-watching expeditions. A young Macdonald could gaze at the wild birds at the zoo for hours, and begged for her parents’ permission to accompany local falconers on a hunting walk when she was 12 years old. Macdonald’s choice of coping strategy isn’t as random as it might seem: Habits of observation tied the author and her father, a photographer, close together. “One of the things that grief does is really shatter the idea of a narrative,” Macdonald told The Guardian in an interview, although her book is compelling evidence that grief can enable literary genres to transcend their structure. White, and Macdonald's family, and the prose is airtight, leaving little room for readers to transition between narratives. She intertwines chapters about birds of prey, a 1930s author named T.H. Macdonald’s book, the 2014 winner of both the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book of the Year Award, is an account of how the author recovers from the sudden loss of her father by adopting and training a goshawk. ![]()
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