FEATHERHOOD (WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON) (PB)

This is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it. About 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. It is a story about change - from wild to tame; from sanity to madness; from freedom to captivity and back again, via an insane asylum, a prison and a magpie's nest.