Samuel Johnson Prize: 'unusual and extraordinary' memoir wins

Helen Macdonald’s book is both a personal story about loss and a history of falconry

Helen Macdonald

An "unusual" book that intertwines grief and falconry has been awarded the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

The £20,000 prize was awarded to Helen Macdonald for her book H for Hawk, in which she details how she followed her childhood dream of training a goshawk as a way of dealing with the loss of her father.

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