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Charlie Gilmour was born in 1989 and raised in London and Sussex. He read history at Cambridge University, with a brief interlude in 2011 at Her Majesty's Prison Wandsworth. He lives in South London with his wife, Janina, and their daughter, Olga.
Featherhood is one of the best books I've ever read. I urge you to seek it out, buy it, and be enchanted. It's incredibly moving and I loved every single page
Elton John
The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years. It announces Charlie Gilmour as a major new writing talent
Neil Gaiman
Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly
Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK
Beautiful, wise, compassionate and powerful, Featherhood is one of those rare, enchanted books that sings to the soul of what it is to be
Isabella Tree, author of WILDINGWhat a book! I was entranced. A personal reckoning which is simultaneously brutal and joyous. It's full of light. I want to tell everyone about itCathy Rentzenbrink, author of THE LAST ACT OF LOVEThis stunning memoir flashes with as many colours as its enchanting subject, and draws us into a world of eccentric characters impossible to predict or forget. Savage, mischievous, moving, sublimeRhik Samadder, author of I NEVER SAID I LOVED YOUFEATHERHOOD, it would be tempting to say, is where Helen Macdonald's H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell's My Family And Other Animals. But Charlie Gilmour's memoir is so original and ingeniously wrought, it stands on its own as a book to which others will surely be compared... Gilmour's language is as precise as his gaze is forensic. He is something of a magician himself, conjuring whole vivid personalities with a few deft strokes of his pen... He can slay you with his succinct summoning of a small boy's struggles... and he can dazzle you with the gem-like images of nature he creates which, like all writers who draw you into their orbit, thrum with life... Remarkable.'DAILY MAIL, Book of the Week - Ginny DougaryIt is wise, self-aware, never forced, often funny, beautifully crafted, and, in the end, as moving as Kes, that other great work about a boy who is given the gift of liberation by a bird.MAIL ON SUNDAY - Craig BrownA soaring debut... A sincere and searing tale of loss, addictive despair, the redemptive power of love, the natural world and a shit-dropping, feather-moulting talking magpie... This will undoubtedly be held up alongside H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald's memoir that saw her tame her grief and a bird of prey in her living room. But Featherhood is an equal, if not better, work of magpie investigation that ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs.SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE - Helen DaviesA profound exploration of grief, fragmented families, nature versus nurture and whether we are doomed to repeat the sins of our fathers. But it is also a gladdening celebration of what it is to nurture and bring forth new life.SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE - Caroline SandersonA beautiful book, sensitive and compelling - it made me crySimon AmstellI loved Featherhood. About nature and growth, about belonging and not belonging, it is beautiful Andrew O'Hagan, author of THE ILLUMINATIONSUtterly absorbing, astonishingly well-written, full of heart, Featherhood is the most arresting book I've read for a very long time Cressida Connolly, author of AFTER THE PARTYThe extraordinary story of an extraordinary familySophie Heawood, author of THE HANGOVER GAMESFeatherhood is an incisive, funny and at times traumatic study of the damage done by destructive father-son relationships and the struggle to smash generational cycles. EVENING STANDARD - David MarslandA wonderful, moving book. His account of raising a young magpie offers a lovely insight into this fascinating birdJames Macdonald Lockhart, author of RAPTOR[An]
affecting and beautifully written memoir.
THE BOOKSELLER, Editor's Choice