Raising Hare

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

A great and important tale for our times

This is more than a wildlife memoir, it's a philosophical masterpiece

This book is exceptional. A simply wonderful story, profoundly beautiful

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

Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has taken the time to reconnect to nature and the wild within. A beautiful book

Raising Hare is an observant and enchanting meditation on nurturing a wild creature, capturing the fragile wonder that can emerge between human and animal

A fascinating meditation on nature, friendship, renewal and love [ . . . ] awakening in us a sense of wonder. It helps us pay attention to the world around us, and, in doing so, rediscover ourselves

This book tells a story of true friendship with great respect . . . If you love animals, this book is incredibly beautiful and moving and helped me see nature differently. I think it's the best non-fiction book of the year

This is a book of sheer joy and goodness in our times often marked by dark and troubling events. It transports you to a world of long-lost innocence and makes you want to hug the world

A nourishing nature memoir at its finest

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.

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