Helen macdonald goshawk7/8/2023 ![]() Macdonald vividly recounts her experiences with Mabel, from acquisition as a baby through intense training and bloodsport (in countryside near Cambridge, England) to dropping her off at a hawk hostelry for molting season. (She was already a seasoned expert in falconry, and was attracted to goshawks' reputation for contrariness as sporting birds.) It was then that "The Goshawk" reentered her consciousness. When, in Macdonald's 30s, her father died unexpectedly, she was plunged into a depression that led her taking on Mabel. During the early 1930s, before the Arthurian novels brought fame, he chronicled his failed raptor-bonding experience in "The Goshawk." It was only published years later when White had become famous, and was read, with some disapproval, by Macdonald during her quirkily bird-obsessed childhood. White, who died in 1964, was also a falconer. ![]()
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