Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. 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, this became her unexpected reality. In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare. She brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare. 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.