Raising Hare
«The story of this excellent book is in one sense familiar: a narrator, experiencing a rupture or crisis, is transformed through a magical encounter with a "wild" creature, a hare. But there is much more going on here. Dalton has a zoologist's eye for detail and a poet's sensitivity to language»
* Guardian, 'Book of the Day' *
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND iNEWS
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND iNEWS
'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE
'A glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy' - KATHERINE RUNDELL
'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG
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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. This happened to me.
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781805302711
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 22 x 16 cm
- Priser
- Waterstones Book of the Year null
Om forfatteren
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.
chloedalton.uk | @chloedaltonuk | @raisinghare
Anmeldelser
«The story of this excellent book is in one sense familiar: a narrator, experiencing a rupture or crisis, is transformed through a magical encounter with a "wild" creature, a hare. But there is much more going on here. Dalton has a zoologist's eye for detail and a poet's sensitivity to language»
* Guardian, 'Book of the Day' *
«The best books make you rethink how you relate to the world. This is one of those books. Quietly profound, beautifully written, Hare is now lodged in my heart»
TRACY CHEVALIER
«Raising Hare is 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 *
«Raising Hare is 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»
KATHERINE RUNDELL
«A nourishing nature memoir at its finest»
* Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' *
«In steady, elegant, whimsy-free prose, Dalton documents minute observations of her daily coexistence with the leveret. This is indeed a remarkable debut»
* Spectator *
«Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has taken the time to reconnect to nature and the wild within. A beautiful book»
ANGELINA JOLIE
«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»
* Financial Times, 'Best Books of 2024' *
«This is the most gorgeous piece of nature writing published this year, and one that ought to become a classic of the genre. [It is] the soul-soothing read we all need right now»
* iNews *
«Raising Hare is an astounding achievement. Not since I read Salar the Salmon by Henry Williamson have I witnessed such insight into a creature of the wild. 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 and indeed Henry Williamson himself. 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