'Watership Down is stunning, compulsive reading.'
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Sunday Times *
'This beautifully written and intensely moving story is the work of an extraordinary imagination.'
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Sunday Telegraph *
'A great book. A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.'
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Guardian *
'A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows. Very funny, exciting, often moving.'
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Evening Standard *
'An impressive, immensely readable story, held together over 400 pages by a powerful imagination that soon forbids disbelief.'
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New Statesman *
'Quite marvelous... A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.'
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New York Times Book Review *
'This new edition is quite spectacular.'
* Bill Heine, BBC Radio Oxford *
'A classic... A great book.'
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Los Angeles Times'Exquisite... a treasured keepsake for those whose original version has become tattered, and a delightful introduction to a new generation.'
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The View magazine *
'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come.'
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Sunday Times *
'Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do.'
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Chicago Tribune *
'This lovely, lovely novel will join those classics which preserve the simpler joys... and there is the wonder of the English countryside, seen with the ground-level detail of a rabbit's eye and ear and nose, the scent and savour of short, sweet grass, the aromatic tiny wild plants, their names used like charms.'
-- Monica Dickens
