Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :https://esound.space/fullID: 442963Title: Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a MagpieAuthor: Charlie GilmourNarrator: Charlie GilmourFormat: UnabridgedLength: 08:34:53Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-05-21Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioGenres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Science & Technology, Animals & NatureSummary:In this “vivid…lovely and inviting” (The New York Times) coming-of-age memoir—the “best piece of nature writing since H Is for Hawk” (Neil Gaiman)—a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the bird saves him.This is a story of two men who could talk to birds—but were completely incapable of talking to each other.A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child.A son obsessed with his absence—and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away.This is a story about the crow family and human family; 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.Contact: [email protected]

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