Watership Down

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Be cunning, and full of tricks – Richard Adams

Fiver is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren, the only home he’s ever known. While the other rabbits ignore him, his big brother Hazel knows that Fiver’s instincts are always right…

They must leave immediately.

Fiver leads the rabbits on a thrilling quest through the human world to their new home, Watership Down, where they must work together to overcome their biggest challenge yet.

Author Biography

Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Service. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams wrote many novels and short stories, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He died in 2016, aged 96.