After her father's sudden death, Macdonald trained a goshawk named Mabel and wrote a book that is simultaneously a grief memoir, a falconry manual, and a literary biography of T.H. White. The combination shouldn't work. It works completely. Won the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book of the Year because nobody could figure out which category it belonged in.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.