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Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian and affiliate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. Her memoir H is for Hawk (2014) won the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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Nest of spies
The cuckoo is both an icon of Englishness and a symbol of suspicion and deceit — a perfect pet for an MI5 officer, then
Helen Macdonald