Be More Bird: Candida Meyrick

A small masterpiece, written with heart, self-belief and wisdom.

Wonderful! PAUL THEROUXA true story of Bird and writer Candida Meyrick, set on Anglesey and a fable for us all to find a way to fly.

The twelve-week-old Harris Hawk, Sophia Houdini Whitewing aka Bird is trained over the following months by the author and her children to be most herself: a skilled hunter and dazzling aerial gymnast, whose flights enrapture the family and set the author on a deepening love affair with life on the wing.

Working with her Harris Hawk over the following years reveals a new world: confronting mortality daily, moving through a liminal landscape, part sky, part earth-bound.

And every days hunting brings a new life-lesson.

Bird opens up a way of being that is everything the author most longs to be: courageous, compassionate, independent, full of joy free as a bird.