Hay Festival Book of the Year 2024
After hundreds had their say, we're delighted to reveal our Hay Festival Book of the Year 2024 is... Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.
A 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, Raising Hare has charmed readers and critics alike.
Since its release, the memoir has become a fast Festival favourite – a classic tale of transformation imbued with new questions around what it means to be human. We are delighted to celebrate it as our Book of the Year.
Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy specialist. She has spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has advised, and written for and with, numerous prominent figures. She divides her time between London and her home in the English countryside. Raising Hare is her first book.Watch the event