No Way But Gentlenesse
Book description
Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts and praying for his father's safe return. When he failed his eleven-plus it seemed all too likely that he would…
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T. H. White’s book The Goshawk had been a profound influence on Richard’s life as a boy. It inspired his early interest in falconry and his relationship with a kestrel. This in turn inspired his older brother Barry to write Kes.
After I had been helped to find it by the local Wheeler family who had known White all those years ago, Richard, Helen Macdonald and I made a memorable pilgrimage to White’s long-lost cottage one sunny spring morning. Richard describes the occasion in No Way But Gentlenesse, his vivid and moving memoir.
From Conor's list on the Goshawk (the "Phantom of the Forest").
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