And of course the visitors would go away really disappointed. She had to say to them it was a fiction and didn't exist – and she got really fed up of it. The author said: "Mrs Weeks got fed up because they'd always knock at her door to ask where they could see the painting. Poignantly, Joan Weeks, the daughter-in-law of Albert Weeks, one of the first world war veterans who inspired Morpurgo to write the story, lives next door to the hall. Once Steven Spielberg's film version of the story is released later this year in the US and in the UK soon after, a flood of new enthusiasts are expected to arrive in the village. "For 25 of those years just a few people turned up at the village hall to see the painting – which didn't exist."īut since the National Theatre's production became a huge hit, the trickle increased. For 30 years people have taken it literally. Morpurgo said: "The author's note is an invention – it's how I wanted the story to start. On Wednesdaya painting of Joey the horse, commissioned by Morpurgo to turn what he called a "black lie" into a "little white one", was finally hung almost 30 years after the book was published.
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