{"product_id":"featherhood-1","title":"Featherhood","description":"'One of the best books I have ever read. Incredibly moving' Elton John  'I cant recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald  'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs' Sunday Times  'Where Helen Macdonald's H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals ... Remarkable' Daily Mail  'Beautiful, wise, compassionate and powerful' Isabella Tree  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.    'An incisive, funny and at times traumatic study of the damage done by destructive father-son relationships and the struggle to smash generational cycles' Evening Standard   'A personal reckoning which is simultaneously brutal and joyous. I was entranced' Cathy Rentzenbrink   'A beautiful book - it made me cry' Simon Amstell","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151415849045,"sku":"9781474609470N","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/f744c2ae-f235-44ba-be11-1fb5bceed51d.jpg?v=1657016069","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/featherhood-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}