English writer, naturalist, and Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Best known for her book "H is for Hawk",...
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Helen Macdonald @HelenJMacdonald
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Mar 1, 2016
Luminously wise and deeply compassionate, The Lonely City is a fierce and essential work. Laing is a masterful biographer, memoirist and critic. Fearlessly tracing the roots of loneliness, its forbidding consequences, and its complicated and beautiful relationship with art, it is powerful, poignant and magical. Reading it made my heart ache yet filled me with hope for the world