{"product_id":"9781474609487","title":"Featherhood : 'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs' Sunday Times","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Charlie Gilmour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFather’s Day\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 March 2021 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 36mm | 264g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'INCREDIBLY MOVING' ELTON JOHN'A SOARING DEBUT' SUNDAY TIMES'WONDERFUL' HELEN MACDONALD'DAZZLING' TELEGRAPH  This is a story about birds and fathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  And ultimately, it is the story of a love affair between a man and a magpie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlie Gilmour","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57391065530693,"sku":"9781474609487","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781474609487.jpg?v=1773516857","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781474609487","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}