# Featherhood

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- Book: [Featherhood](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-gilmour/featherhood) ([Featherhood.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-gilmour/featherhood.md))
- Authors: [Charlie Gilmour](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-gilmour)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-949-4
- Published: 2020-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'INCREDIBLY MOVING' ELTON JOHN 'A SOARING DEBUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'WONDERFUL' HELEN MACDONALD 'DAZZLING' TELEGRAPH 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; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one's own. 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. And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.