Raising Hare
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Narrated by:
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Louise Brealey
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By:
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Chloe Dalton
About this listen
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.
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Critic reviews
'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)
'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)
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- Julie Mitchard
- 28-09-24
The natural world is so important and meaningful to us.
A beautiful moving account of a relationship between a woman and a hair, how they accepted each other. It has resonance in these troubled times, how the natural world is so important and meaningful to us. Thank you for sharing your experience with me.
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- Julia graham
- 22-11-24
Educational and extraordinary
This story is wholesome, it fills you up with sunshine. I never knew anything about Hares and I feel I have a tiny knowledge of such a beautiful creature, having listened to this audible title.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-24
Beautiful contemplation of nature
Extremely touching and heartfelt tale that's definitely worth reading. It awakens you to the nature around us and its vulnerability. Really beautiful.
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- Love-my-Kindle
- 07-10-24
My favourite book in 50 years of reading.
I loved this book, listened to on audio book as I did other things but I'll buy the paperback soon for my forever shelves. Beautiful, haunting, educational, fascinating, absolute magic.
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- Rose
- 18-10-24
Some of the writing was beautiful
The readers accent, enunciation and wrong emphases were irritating at times. A better reader would have done the book more justice.
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- Lesley
- 05-10-24
Nice, but not much content
It was a nice story and yes quite amazing as hares are not domesticated, but the book could have been half as long as it was. Just not much happened unfortunately, it felt a bit of a stretch to write a book on it to be honest. In saying that, it wasn't a bad read, but a little flat. Sorry!
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