Basis in Reality
Adams based the book's research station, ARSE (an acronym for Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental, and British slang for buttocks), on the remote hill farm of Lawson Park, now run as an artist residency by the contemporary art organisation Grizedale Arts.
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