Raising Hare

– Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2025 for Nature Writing and overall winner of the Wainwright Prize 2025
– The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller
– Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
– Waterstones non-fiction book of the month
– Shortlisted for the Hatchards and Biographers' Club first biography prize
– A book of the year for the Hay Festival, Sunday Times, The Times, Financial Times, Spectator and iNews

"I savoured every carefully chosen and perfectly polished word and I cared so deeply about Hare that I found myself holding my breath [...] This is more than a wildlife memoir, it's a philosophical masterpiece ruminating on our place as human beings in nature"
– Clare Balding

"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

"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

"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

"A beautiful book that makes you think profoundly about how we so often tune out the natural world around us. Chloe Dalton is a tender, curious, wise, mind-expanding guide, connecting readers with the wild we humans once knew so well. I will be recommending this to everyone"
– Matt Haig

"A captivating and uplifting story about a chance encounter that proved utterly transformative. Beautifully written, touching and thought-provoking. It's stayed with me weeks after finishing the final sentence"
– Cathy Newman

"Utterly bewitched by this marvel of nature writing by Chloe Dalton with glorious illustrations by Denise Nestor"
– Caroline Sanderson

"A moving, magical blend of memoir and nature writing [...] beautifully written, with a luminous, fairytale quality"
– John O'Connell

"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 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"
– Elif Shafak

"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'

"A nourishing nature memoir at its finest"
– Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'

"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

"In steady, elegant, whimsy-free prose, Dalton documents minute observations of her daily coexistence with the leveret. This is indeed a remarkable debut"
– Spectator