Packed Crowd for ‘H is for Hawk’ Author

There was a packed crowd in the Westport Library’s McManus Room tonight for a talk by British author Helen Macdonald. Her best-selling “H is for Hawk” account of working through bereavement by training a bird of prey has won wide praise and was picked by The New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2015. A Cambridge academic, Macdonald described her grief over her father’s sudden death in 2007. To overcome her loss and as an experienced falconer, captivated by hawks since childhood, she decided to purchase and train a Goshawk, a fierce and feral bird she named Mabel.(CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com