A woman with dark hair and a medieval style dress is embraced by a wicker man.Image source, Black Bear
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The film Wicker, which opens in UK cinemas on 30 October, was based on Ursula Wills' short story

BySacha BigwoodReporting fromGloucestershire
  • Published25 October 2026

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.