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I began to write the book shortly after attending the centenary celebrations of the Forth Bridge in 1990, when I had some time on my hands. I wanted to produce something which could be compared with ‘Watership Down’, but which would be set in my own territory. I completed the first three parts quite quickly, but I had to stop at that point because of business commitments. It was not until 2009, almost twenty years later, that I picked up the manuscript again and completed the final two parts.
The finished book really is like ‘Watership Down’, but with a difference. The difference is that there are no cuddly rabbits. Just rats. They live on the little island that's tucked under the Forth Railway Bridge. They've been there for centuries. Then a group of them attempts to flee to the mainland. They just happen to go in the middle of the bridge's centenary celebrations ...
Brendan Gisby