Willows Rewilded: the wry adult sequel to Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' - Paperback

by Colin Childs (Author)

Toad Hall, derelict and empty for a century, sees the return of the impecunious Horatio Toad and his six wives to the ancestral home.

In need of cash, Horatio has leased out his estate and formed a partnership with oddball rewilder Georges Montgolfiere, who needs the land more than he needs Horatio. Tensions mount as Horatio's vision of an animal-based theme park, replete with zipwires and gift shops, is diametrically opposed to Montgolfiere's purist sensibilities.

Meanwhile, a bemused Mole surfaces not to a "silent spring", as Montgolfiere contends, but to a fractious one. Badger is apoplectic; someone or something has pillaged his truffle beds. Ratty, now vegan and identifying as a vole, is suffering from alopecia while the translocated otter family copes with indigestion and sewage.

A "New Wild Order" will emerge, but the outcome will be beyond Montgolfiere's wildest imaginings. The rewilder will discover the rewilded have their own plans.

'Willows Rewilded' is a humorous slant on rewilding and contemporary politics with some adult content.