Stephen Hayes reviewed The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson
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3 stars
Set in an imaginary kingdom about 3000 years ago (to judge by the technology and social system) a 13-year-old boy who has been training to become a priest of the hawk-god Gdu rescues a sacrificial hawk belonging to an untameable species from a ceremony and inadvertently gets involved in political and religious intrigues of his time. But at root it is a story of a boy and a hawk.