"Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me."
When Chloe, a city-dwelling professional with a high-pressure job, finds a newborn hare, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival – despite being the least likely caregiver to this wild animal.
Raising Hare is the story of their journey together. It chronicles an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. Their improbable bond of trust reminds us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them.
This edition includes a moving new chapter.
REVIEWS
Winner of the Wainwright Prize and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this instant Sunday Times bestseller is the magical true story of a woman and a baby hare who form an incredible bond.
This book is exceptional. A simply wonderful story, profoundly beautiful - Chris Packham
A glorious book – for its warmth, its precision, its joy. It’s not dreamy or romantic about the natural world – it’s something far better than that - Katherine Rundell
Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has taken the time to reconnect to nature and the wild within. A beautiful book - Angelina Jolie
Raising Hare is an observant and enchanting meditation on nurturing a wild creature, capturing the fragile wonder that can emerge between human and animal -Queen Camilla
A great and important tale for our times - Michael Morpurgo
This is more than a wildlife memoir, it’s a philosophical masterpiece - Clare Balding
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy specialist. She spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has advised, and written for and with, numerous prominent figures. She divides her time between London and her home in the English countryside. Raising Hare is her first book. It won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, selected as a Waterstones Book of the Year and as the Hay Festival Book of the Year. It was a Critics Best Books pick for The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator and iNews and was Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
