A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) – and a magpie called Benzene.
Featherhood: ‘The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years’ Neil Gaiman
(author)
£16.99
Edition:Hardback978147460947027/08/2020
Categories: 02. Summer Books 2020: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Natural History, Summer Books 2020
Tags: Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Care of the elderly, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Memoir, Parenting: advice and issues, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest
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