Chloe Dalton

Sydney

Founder and Co-Host at the [female] athlete project

Olympic Gold Medallist 🏉 OAM. founder of @femathproject. AFLW player @gwsgiants. Physiotherapist. Insta: chloeedalton

Articles

Why is introducing a law to protect hares going at a tortoise’s pace?

1 week ago | ft.com | Chloe Dalton

A few years ago, I reared a baby hare — a leveret — that had been chased by a dog and separated from its mother.
Chloe Dalton on How Raising a Hare Changed Her Life

3 weeks ago | waterstones.com | Mark Skinner |Chloe Dalton

When I became the unlikely custodian of a baby hare during lockdown, I had no idea of the effect this disarmingly small, silent wild animal would have upon me. Until then, the greatest influences in my life had always taken human form. I worked as an adviser in Parliament and then in the Foreign Office, travelling overseas constantly. The white mouse and English Spot rabbit I’d had as pets as a child were a distant memory.
Nonfiction Books

1 month ago | fivebooks.com | Neneh Cherry |Rachel Clarke |Chloe Dalton |Clare Mulley

The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is still a relatively new prize. Perhaps you might talk us through its aims and the type of book you are seeking to reward. This is the second year of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. We are the younger sister of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
My father read Joseph Conrad to us at the kitchen table

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Chloe Dalton
That time I read 70+ books in a few months

Mar 26, 2025 | thehyphen.substack.com | Neneh Cherry |Chloe Dalton |Helen Scales |Emma Gannon

I follow the Women’s Prize with great interest and enthusiasm every year, setting my alarm for the announcements across fiction and non-fiction, and then filling up my Bookshop.org shopping basket with some fantastic new reads. So when Claire, the brilliant executive director of the Women’s Prize Trust, invited me to be a judge for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, I felt like pinching myself. “I am so excited,” I said.
21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring

Mar 13, 2025 | news.nestia.com | Chloe Dalton

March Image Raising Hare: A Memoirby Chloe DaltonDalton, a political adviser based in London, was not much of a naturalist when she retreated to the English countryside during the pandemic. That changed one frigid morning in 2021, when she rescued an abandoned newborn hare. Their resulting bond prompts her to meditate on humans’ relationship to animals, to ourselves and to the rhythms of life.
Dear Librarians: A Letter from Chloe Dalton, Author of Raising Hare

Mar 10, 2025 | penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Maureen Meekins |Chloe Dalton

Dear LibrariansWalking to my local library this week, I was brought up short by the sight of Raising Hare on temporary display in the window. I felt a lump in my throat to know that my book had entered the bloodstream of the great living network of libraries globally. I cannot remember a life before reading.
The Beauty of the Wild: A Guest Post by Chloe Dalton

Mar 7, 2025 | barnesandnoble.com | Chloe Dalton |Isabelle McConville

The Beauty of the Wild: A Guest Post by Chloe Dalton In the digital age, it’s easy to forget to look at the nature around us. But thanks to Chloe Dalton and her unexpected furry friend, this memoir is as much a thumper of a personal narrative as it is an ode to earth’s natural gifts. Read on for an exclusive essay from Chloe on what inspired her to write Raising Hare.
21 New Books to Read in March: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ezra Klein, Karen Russell and more

Mar 2, 2025 | entertainment-mag.com | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Chloe Dalton |Agustina Bazterrica |Sarah Moses

It’s been years since Adichie, the author of “Americanah,” released a work of fiction; now she returns with the stories of four women navigating life during the pandemic. Centered on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer based in the United States, the story also swivels to her cousin, her best friend and her housekeeper, as each woman grapples with familial and romantic love.
Book Review: ‘Raising Hare,’ by Chloe Dalton

Mar 1, 2025 | entertainment-mag.com | Chloe Dalton

RAISING HARE: A Memoir, by Chloe DaltonDuring the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, the internet was the lifeline to work, school, entertainment and social activity for many white-collar workers. Yet, when her router cable was severed, Chloe Dalton felt not panic, but “a rare moment of exasperation” with the toothy perpetrator — the brown hare with whom she’d been sharing her home in the English countryside. “I sighed,” she writes.