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Macdonald, Helen

Entry updated 10 March 2025. Tagged: Author.

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(1970-    ) UK naturalist and author, best known for her memoir, H is for Hawk (2014), the narrative of a year spent training a goshawk, and for study of T H White, whose The Goshawk (1951) is cited. They are of sf interest for Prophet (2023) with Sin Blaché, set in a Near Future world victimized by a Pandemic-like virus-like infection, invented and weaponized for unsure purposes by the American military; its effect, of locking those infected into an obsessive absorption in the past, Equipoisally expands through its apparent capacity to actualize the objects of these obsessions. The protagonists, engaged in a gay romance, must attempt to penetrate the mystery of this retro-Prophet. [JC]

Helen Macdonald

born Surrey: 1970

works (highly selected)

  • Prophet (London: Jonathan Cape, 2023) with Sin Blaché [hb/Dan Mogford]

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