Raising Hare

During the first lockdown, Chloe Dalton, a foreign policy adviser used to a life of constant travel, found herself in the English countryside when she came across a newborn hare, small enough to sit in her palm and alone in a field. She took it in, determined to keep it alive without taming it, and this memoir follows what happened next as a wild animal came to share her home on its own terms.

It is a book about close attention: to an animal rarely seen up close, to the turning seasons, and to the slower rhythm of a life suddenly stripped of its usual busyness. Dalton writes with care and without sentimentality about what it means to make room for something wild. A quiet, absorbing memoir for anyone who loves nature writing and the patient observation of the living world.