H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald, Jonathan Cape, 2014, First Edition First Impression, Very Rare Helen MacDonald had yearned to be a falconer as a young girl. Years later when her father died suddenly she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, driven on by the memories of reading T.H.White's "The Goshawk" and his description of the struggle to train the goshawk as a spiritual contest. H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson and Costa Book of the Year prizes. The judges were particularly attracted to the clever interplay of themes - the spiritual journey and outpouring of grief, the biographical referencing to T.H.White and the simple depiction of nature at its most beautiful. As an unproven writer the first print run was rather small and therefore first impressions of the first edition are exceedingly rare. This book is in fine condition with fine dust jacket protected in a clear removable cover. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.