Chloe Dalton (14:00 BST)

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and drummed on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention – and that two years later, it still returned to 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 whilst determined to let it return to the natural world. Making no attempt to domesticate it she learned to adapt her own life, creating an environment where human and wild animal could exist side by side.

Her best-selling Raising Hare, a story that has captured the imagination of thousands, is a life-affirming observation of a mystical creature.

In conversation with Sally Magnusson

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