Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare

We are so lucky to be hosting this event with Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlisted author, Chloe Dalton, talking about her beautiful book, Raising Hare. This has been a really popular book at our shop!

Raising Hare

The magical and heart-warming story of how one woman’s unexpected bond with a hare completely changed her life...

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.

‘A tale of hope, channelled through the enduring and improbable bond between a human and a wild animal. It's a love letter to the natural world’ The Times

‘A glorious book – for its warmth, its precision, its joy’ Katherine Rundell

‘Raising Hare is an astounding achievement. This is a great and important tale for our times, for all of us, in the same league as Ted Hughes, Alice Oswald, Thomas Hardy. 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

‘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

Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy expert. 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.

Chloe will be in conversation with Catherine from The Heath Bookshop, the event will be followed by a book-signing.