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The author of the Horse Whisperer book is in hospital after being taken ill while on holiday. The author of the Horse Whisperer book was taken to hospital after picking and eating poisonous mushrooms while on holiday in Scotland.
Nicholas Evans and his wife were in Scotland when it is thought their party ate poisonous mushrooms. Nicholas Evans and his wife Charlotte were in Moray when their party cooked and ate mushrooms picked in woodland.
Mr Evans, his wife Charlotte and her brother, Sir Alastair Gordon-Cumming and his wife Lady Louise, are "stable" in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The couple, from Totnes, Devon, were taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary along with Mrs Evans' brother Sir Alastair Gordon-Cumming, and his wife, Louisa.
They were at Sir Alastair's Altyre Estate in Moray when they fell ill, the Daily Record newspaper said. An NHS Grampian spokesperson told BBC Scotland they were "stable".
Mr Evans' best known book, the Horse Whisperer, has sold more than 15m copies worldwide. It tells the story of a talented trainer, with a particular talent for communicating with horses, who is hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health after an accident. The four were initially admitted to hospital in Elgin and then transferred to Aberdeen.
'Extremely grateful'
They were given dialysis and other forms of treatment to support their kidney functions, and were said to have responded well.
A family friend who visited them said all four were walking about and were in a cheerful and positive frame of mind.
They were all said to be "extremely grateful" for the rapid and effective intervention provided by the NHS.
Mr Evans' best known book, the Horse Whisperer, has sold more than 15m copies worldwide.
It tells the story of a talented trainer, with a particular talent for communicating with horses, who is hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health after an accident.
The story was made into a movie directed by and starring Robert Redford in 1998.The story was made into a movie directed by and starring Robert Redford in 1998.