{"product_id":"featherhood-charlie-gilmour-9781474622424","title":"Featherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One of the best books I have ever read. Incredibly moving' Elton John\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I cant recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Where Helen Macdonald's H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals ... Remarkable' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, wise, compassionate and powerful' Isabella Tree\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a story about birds and fathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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... 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlie Gilmour","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43173504188659,"sku":"9781474622424","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781474622424.jpg?v=1662058102","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/featherhood-charlie-gilmour-9781474622424","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}