‘H Is For Hawk’ scoops Costa book award


Helen Macdonald’s memoir honoured for its moving account of grief.

An academic's memoir of training a hawk while grieving the death of her father won Britain's prestigious Costa Book Award on Tuesday (Jan 28).It is the second leading award given to Helen Macdonald's H Is For Hawk, after the book became the first ever memoir to win the non-fiction Samuel Johnson Prize in November.

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