Chloe Dalton

The magical true story of a woman and an injured hare.

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.

When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival.

‘Raising Hare’ chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild. We witness an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. This improbable bond of trust serves to remind us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them.

‘This book is exceptional. It made me smile out loud, such a magical tale of a world turned upside down by a fragile wild thing– a leveret lost, a life found.  A simply wonderful story, profoundly beautiful.’ CHRIS PACKHAM

‘Raising Hare is a glorious book – for its warmth, its precision, its joy..  KATHERINE RUNDELL

This is more than a wildlife memoir, it’s a philosophical masterpiece ruminating on our place as human beings in nature’ CLARE BALDING

‘Raising Hare is an astounding achievement. I am so pleased Chloe Dalton told us about raising hare. I will not forget it and nor will anyone who reads it’ MICHAEL MORPURGO