Description: Praise for Vesper Flights Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, and Literary Hub "[An] altogether memorable collection . . . Exemplary writing about the intersection of the animal and human worlds." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An inviting collection... infused with wonder, nostalgia, and melancholy." -- Publishers Weekly "Gorgeously composed, complexly affecting, and stunningly revelatory."-- Booklist (starred review) "An essential writer on nature, humanity, and loss. Macdonald fills her narratives with vivid descriptions of the wildlife that surrounds us."-- TIME "A profound meditation on life and freedom."-- Entertainment Weekly Praise for H is for Hawk : "Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptor's fierce essence--and her own--with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we don't notice their astonishing engineering." -- New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Beautiful and nearly feral... H Is for Hawk reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies of the wild world as well." -- New York Times "Macdonald is a poet, her language rich and taut." -- Chicago Tribune "Captivating and beautifully written, it's a meditation on the bond between beasts and humans and the pain and beauty of being alive." -- People (Book of the Week) "One of the loveliest things you'll read this year . . . You'll never see a bird overhead the same way again. A-" -- Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling." -- Vogue "Coherent, complete, and riveting, perhaps the finest nonfiction I read in the past year." -- New Yorker "An elegantly written amalgam of nature writing, personal memoir, literary portrait and an examination of bereavement. . . . It illuminates unexpected things in unexpected ways." -- Washington Post "Glows and burns." -- Wall Street Journal "Assured, honest and raw . . . a soaring wonder of a book." -- Boston Globe

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