Wash Common author Richard Adams loved where he grew up
Wash Common author Richard Adams was best known for Watership Down, and his daughter told 大象传媒 Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker how the local countryside inspired his work.
She also discusses his new novel, Egg box Dragon:
Juliet Johnson:
"I think it was who he was, and I think writing Watership Down was an escape.
"He was a countryman, he grew up in Wash Common when it was much quieter, the roads were made of dust in his day... I know there were a lot of woods that he liked.
"Things like bulrushes and toads, they were his companions.
"He lived a very rich imaginative life."
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