Featherhood av Charlie Gilmour

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<p><b>''The best piece of nature writing since <i>H is for Hawk</i>, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years'' Neil Gaiman</b><br><br><b>''Wonderful - I can''t recommend it too highly'' Helen Macdonald</b><br><br><b>''One of those rare, enchanted books'' Isabella Tree</b><br><br><b>''Beautiful - it made me cry'' Simon Amstell</b><br><br><b>''I was entranced'' Cathy Rentzenbrink</b><br><br>This is a story about birds and fathers.<br><br>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...<br><br> 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.<br><br> It is a story about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; a