Reseña del libro "Raising Hare: A Memoir (en Inglés)"
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare. 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 slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality. In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare--a leveret--that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton's house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death. Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them. "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, author of The Midnight Library
Chloe Dalton es una escritora británica, asesora política y especialista en política exterior que trabajó durante más de una década en el Parlamento del Reino Unido y en organismos gubernamentales vinculados a la diplomacia. Alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con Raising Hare (2024), su debut literario, una obra de no ficción en la que relata la inesperada experiencia de criar una liebre salvaje encontrada siendo apenas una cría durante el confinamiento de la pandemia. El libro combina memoria personal, observación de la naturaleza y reflexión sobre la relación entre los seres humanos y el mundo salvaje.
Gracias al éxito de Raising Hare, Dalton se consolidó como una de las nuevas voces destacadas de la escritura de naturaleza contemporánea. La obra fue un éxito de ventas internacional y obtuvo el prestigioso Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, además de figurar entre las finalistas del Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Su escritura destaca por la sensibilidad con la que explora la libertad, la confianza y la convivencia respetuosa con la vida silvestre, temas que también inspiran su labor de divulgación y conservación.
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