Richard Adams obituary

Author of the classic 1970s novel Watership Down, the allegorical tale of a colony of rabbitsRichard Adams, who has died aged 96, was the author of one of the most successful books of the 1970s. Published in 1972, Watership Down, Adams’s story about a colony of rabbits travelling across the country in search of a better home in the Berkshire Downs when their burrow is destroyed, became a cult novel, with a “crossover” readership.Despite being published as an adult book, Watersh