I love this book, but am still making myself read it slowly. I am breaking my heart over T H White's goshawk and I like the way she is telling that story in parallel with her own.
I agree with you poohbear (great you could join us by the way!) about controlling death. She describes on page 147 killing the caught rabbit quickly to stop it from suffering.
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Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human. Kneeling next to the hawk and her prey, I felt a responsibility so huge that it battered inside my own chest, ballooning out into a space the size of a cathedral.
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