This memoir probably needs no introduction - it's been in the bestsellers list all over the world, and the author has been widely interviewed, and she appeared at the Auckland Writers festival earlier this year. It's a grief memoir - her father has just died - and she decides to train a goshawk. She becomes quite obsessed, and the book describes her 'untagging' as she attempts to deal with the parallel challenges of dealing with her grief, and training the hawk. She also describes the life of troubled novelist T H White, who also attempted to train a goshawk, and also wrote a memoir about it.
It's a beautifully written and very evocative book, whether you are at all interested in falconry or not. She writes superb descriptions of the natural world, and her own struggle. I think this book will become a classic of British nature writing. I could have done with slightly less on T H White, and a little more on her and where she got to; but that's a minor quibble.