''The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years'' Neil Gaiman
''Wonderful - I can''t recommend it too highly'' Helen Macdonald
''One of those rare, enchanted books'' Isabella Tree
''Beautiful - it made me cry'' Simon Amstell
''I was entranced'' Cathy Rentzenbrink
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; a
