The Hare and I

Imagine holding a newborn rabbit in your hand and feeding it from a bottle. Imagine it living under your roof and running around your bedroom at night. Imagine that even after two years, a rabbit returns to you at your beck and call from its wanderings through the countryside. That's exactly how the author of this book, Chloe Dalton, experienced it.

During lockdown, he leaves his busy London life, moves to the countryside and one day, while walking, comes across a small, abandoned rabbit. Fearing for his life, she instinctively decides to take care of him, and a fragile bond of trust begins to form between the wild creature and the woman who has been primarily interested in her job and career, which changes her life in unexpected ways.

The memoir Hare and I recounts their journey together while detailing the life and nature of hares and their ambivalent image portrayed by art, literature and superstition. The story of this extraordinary relationship, interspersed with reflections on the coexistence of humans and animals, the pace of modern life and our connection with nature, wrapped in the beautiful, poetic language, it's tempting to stop for a moment, to look at your own life from a different perspective and rediscover the beauty of nature.