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Raising Hare: A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton

Dalton, a political adviser based in London, was not much of a naturalist when she retreated to the English countryside during the pandemic. That changed one frigid morning in 2021, when she rescued an abandoned newborn hare. Their resulting bond prompts her to meditate on humans’ relationship to animals, to ourselves and to the rhythms of life. “If I could derive this much pleasure from something so simple,” she writes, “what else might be waiting to be discovered?”