The magpie that saved a miscreant: Abandoned as a baby by his bohemian father, Charlie Gilmour struggled with depression, drugs and a prison sentence for violent disorder until a tiny bird helped him fly free of his demons
By GINNY DOUGARY FOR THE DAILY MAIL Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour (Weidenfeld £15.99, 288pp) Featherhood, it would be tempting to say, is where Helen Macdonald’s H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell’s My Family And Other Animals. But Charlie Gilmour’s memoir is so original and ingeniously wrought, it stands on its own as a book to …