H Is for Hawk

Q&A Screening with author Helen MacDonald via Livestream
Wednesday, May 13
Luna on SX + Luna Leederville

Session time: 4:30 pm
Q&A starts: 6:45pm

Local bookstores will be selling copies of Helen MacDonald's memoir in the cinema on the day.

Claire Foy stars in this luminous adaptation of Helen MacDonald's Award-winning memoir of the same name.

When Helen's (Foy) beloved father passes away, she is overtaken by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to Cambridge with her.

Ready to embark on the arduous process of trying to train the wildest of animals, Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone. But as she labors to teach Mabel how to hunt and fly free on her own, Helen uncovers how neglected her own emotions and life have become.

Based on a true story and a memoir of the same name, H IS FOR HAWK is a soaring journey of the connection between people and nature, and how it might be possible to reconcile loss through love.

Screening at Windsor Cinema, Luna Leederville and Luna on SX from May 28.

AUTHOR'S BIO
Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US. They are also the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Vesper Flights, a cultural history of falcons, several poetry collections, and (with Sin Blaché) the sci-fi novel Prophet.

They are currently working on a book about Midway Atoll, albatrosses, and the end of the world. Formerly a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, they have written and presented several television documentaries for PBS and the BBC. They live in Suffolk, England, with three parrots.