Featherhood

On Birds and Fathers

Featherhood
Charlie Gilmour
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781474609487
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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.
This stunning memoir flashes with as many colours as its enchanting subject, and draws us into a world of eccentric characters impossible to predict or forget. Savage, mischievous, moving, sublime. - Rhik Samadder[An] affecting and beautifully written memoir. - THE BOOKSELLER, Editor' s Choice
Charlie Gilmour was born in 1989 and raised in London and Sussex. He read history at Cambridge University, with a brief interlude in 2011 at Her Majesty' s Prison Wandsworth. He lives in South London with his wife, Janina, and their daughter, Olga.
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ISBN-13: 9781474609487
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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