moving, honest (at times brutally so) study of the author's grief at the sudden death of her father 
 her need to escape, to withdraw is transmuted into her desire to train a hunting goshawk, to the degree that she begins to identify more closely with the animal and the wild than the human 
 interlaced with this are short insights into her early life with her father and reflections on a previous author's documentation of his hawk training trials (T.H. White) 
 some beautiful nature scenes with her hawk 
 moving and thought provoking