Author's camping trip inspired Hollywood film Wicker

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Image caption, The film Wicker, which opens in UK cinemas on 30 October, was based on Ursula Wills' short story

By Sacha Bigwood

Reporting from Gloucestershire

An author who was inspired to write a short story after seeing wicker sculptures on a camping trip has said she never imagined it would become a raunchy A-list feature film.

Ursula Wills from Stroud, in Gloucestershire, had just returned from a holiday in Cornwall in 2006 when she wrote The Wicker Husband, which follows an ostracised fisherwoman who pays a basket-maker to weave her a husband.

The story was picked up by writers who "livened it up" for the big screen to become Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

Wills called it a "unique and amazing" film that she thinks "audiences are going to go crazy for".

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