In the end he lives a really lovely life with his new warren all great and everything, and then he leaves his earthly body, shuttling off this mortal coil and nipping off to the leporine (which is a fancy AF word for hares) spiritual plane. So our boy Hazel gets everyone to safety eventually, after going through like a lot of danger, drama, and death. Think Mystic Meg but like, with bunny ears and a coat of lovely fluffy hair. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972. Turns out Fiver is frickin' psychic and is in the know about future goings on. When Watership Down was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

So the whole story is about a rabbit called Hazel trying to lead a load of other rabbits to a new warren after his younger brother Fiver predicts something dangerous is going to happen. The Watership Down book ending is happy, but with a hell of a lot of darkness and sadness thrown in for good measure. Watership Down, by Richard Adams is also available as an audio book and it was adapted as an animated film. There is a lot more to these particular rabbits' lives than chomping on carrots, humping, and being all cute. The titular hill, Watership Down, is a real hill in north Hampshire, England, about six miles southwest of the town where Adams was born and raised.

OK, so maybe this is a fictionalised version of the lives of a load of rabbits but, y'all, seriously. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. But guys, have you read Watership Down? Those little furry beasts' lives are cray. Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. It's easy to think of rabbits as sweet little fluffy, nose twitching creatures, that are all cuddly and adorable.

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