{"product_id":"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","title":"Charlie Gilmour: Featherhood [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best piece of nature writing since \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was entranced' Cathy Rentzenbrink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story about birds and fathers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gilmour, Charlie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44588500615458,"sku":"9781474609487","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gilmour-charlie-charlie-gilmour-featherhood-2021-paperback-9781474609487-58565202706771.jpg?v=1727604483","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/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","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}