Small towns and tight-knit communities are perfect settings for those, along with the messy ties that bind families together.
I love exploring themes of social justice and delving into the complexity of human nature. But there is good news! My next book is in the safe hands of my publisher and I look forward to sharing title and cover details soon.Īnd you can be sure that all the adventures we’re having in our floating home will lead to many more books! The rural and remote places we visit, along with the fascinating people we meet, provide boundless inspiration. While that should have given me more time to write it seems the lure of exploring was too strong. Seven years ago, after a rewarding career as an airline captain and senior manager with the Qantas Airline Group in Australia, I swapped the sky for the sea to go in search of adventure with my husband aboard our sailing catamaran. Adams is survived by his wife, Barbara Acland, and his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond.Hello! I’m Helene Young and welcome to my author page on Goodreads. Adams was in his early 50s when he penned Watership Down, and prior to that served in the Royal Army Service Corps as a brigade liaison during World War II he slowly rose in the rankings of the British civil service, which culminated with a job writing government reports in the Department of the Environment. Additionally, he had a short stint as head of the animal welfare charity RSPCA.
Besides the international recognition he received for penning the rabbit-centric Watership Down in 1972 - which, interestingly, stemmed from a tale he would tell his two children during long car rides - Adams was the author of numerous other works, which ranged in genre from child-friendly fantasy ( Shardik, The Ship’s Cat) to adult-oriented historical fiction ( Traveller) to follow-up short stories ( Tales From Watership Down). His daughter confirmed the news to numerous British publications, saying that her father had been “ailing for some time” but “died peacefully” on Saturday evening. Richard Adams, a decades-spanning English novelist best known for writing the seminal children’s adventure novel Watership Down, has died at the age of 96.
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