A question I wondered as I started reading Richard Adam’s ‘Watership Down’ was – how affecting will a book about rabbits be?
It turns out that a story, that was originally orally comprised for the entertainment of his children, journeying for a better life across fields can sweep you along a great Odyssean tale of hardship, friendship, endurance and belief. It turns out rabbits can ask deep, fundamental truths to the human experience along their journey to a better life with all the subtlety of a sweeping masterpiece
Painting: Today I painted a rabbit
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Bookshop by Penelope Lively
- Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt
- The Assault by Harry Mulisch
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