Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret — lying huddled and alone in the middle of a narrow country lane.

Author Chloe Dalton, a normally busy professional, befriends an animal—in this case, a baby hare, or leveret—and learns unexpected lessons about living wisely. “But there is much more going ...

One day she hears a dog barking, investigates and finds a palm-size leveret (baby hare) lying on the grass strip between two tyre tracks. She leaves on a walk, but when she returns, the leveret is ...

In her recently released best seller, “Raising Hare,” Dalton describes how the rhythm of her life and her sense of self changed when she brought home a baby hare. Before the leveret came into ...

RAISING HARE: A Memoir. By Chloe Dalton. Pantheon. 304 pages. $27. Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret ...