{"product_id":"featherhood-ranks-among-the-best-modern-coming-of-age-memoirs-sunday-times-by-charlie-gilmour","title":"Featherhood 'Ranks Among the Best Modern Coming-Of-age Memoirs' Sunday Times by Charlie Gilmour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'INCREDIBLY MOVING' ELTON JOHN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A SOARING DEBUT' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'WONDERFUL' HELEN MACDONALD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'DAZZLING' \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a story about birds and fathers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is a story about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one's own.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is a story about change - from wild to tame; from sanity to madness; from life to death to birth; from freedom to captivity and back again, via an insane asylum, a prison and a magpie's nest.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781474609487\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43016126955583,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/146603482713.jpg?v=1773744783","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/featherhood-ranks-among-the-best-modern-coming-of-age-memoirs-sunday-times-by-charlie-gilmour","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}