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Helen Macdonald: ‘If you spend a lot of time with another creature, you sense another world’

As a film based on the award-winning memoir arrives in cinemas, the H is for Hawk author walks the frosty Cambridgeshire fields where Mabel the goshawk became a spiritual guide

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