Featherhood : 'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs' Sunday Times
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''INCREDIBLY MOVING'' ELTON JOHN
''A SOARING DEBUT'' SUNDAY TIMES
''WONDERFUL'' HELEN MACDONALD
''DAZZLING'' TELEGRAPH
This is a story about birds and fathers.
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 . . .
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.
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.
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.
And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.
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