Will I love Raising Hare?

This book felt like an immersive adult fairy tale, a tender classic for modern times that transported me to the English countryside. Quite the experience.

I missed this story when I finished it and would happily read Chloe Dalton muse about Hare forever. Moving, descriptive, lyrical writing about the intricacies of nature is always a drawcard for me. I kept running my hand over the illustrations throughout, too exquisite not to touch; the peace and beauty in the prose just as palpable.

This life pivot, where less truly is more, reassured me that we can change and still be successful.… show more.

Forced by COVID to live solitary, the author ends up rescuing a baby hare and raising it to be wild, not a pet.

Growing up with her in her converted barn, her hare stays connected to the wild world beyond, but also to her human home. Mating with wild hares, Dalton’s hare has several litters, one in the human home itself.

An amazing story of cross-species connecting.

A profoundly moving memoir.

Told with humility and grace, this story is recounted by the author, a high‑flying city professional whose life is transformed when she chooses to rescue and nurture a newborn hare.

As their unlikely bond deepens, the reader is taken on a journey of shared learning and raw emotion. I laughed, I was shocked, and at times I grieved. As someone who lives among animals, I recognised so many of Chloe Dalton’s feelings, and I was deeply impressed by her courage and compassion.

This book is a treasure.

This is the story of how a hare changed a woman's life.

It has the most beautiful writing about the landscape of this purposefully vaguely-located corner of England (to prevent those parasocial fans of a hare turning up and crowding her!)

Hares are not rabbits and this books weaves together the history of this rarely seen, little thought of mammal with the specifics of this one leveret who was saved when the author found it abandoned in a country lane during lockdown and how both their lives changed forever.

This tender and beautifully described memoir shows us a woman isolating herself during Covid lockdowns in a country cottage. We all used lockdown time as best we could – I wrote books and completed college. Nature came to Chloe in the form of a baby hare, a leveret, huddled on a lane. Afraid the hare would be killed by a dog, Chloe took it in and learned how to raise it. The hare grew up and repaid her kindness. I love the human-animal connection which might not have been possible in a year of coming and going, regular visitors and… show more.