A PARTICK writer has unveiled a new novel inspired by her childhood adventures in Victoria Park – written entirely during lockdown.

Adriana Polito churned out her second book, Six Shamans and a Visionary, while being stuck indoors due to the Coronavirus shutdown earlier this year.

It was a story the 40-year-old had wanted to pen since she began her first novel, The World Within, 18 years ago.

But, it wasn’t until Adriana moved back to Scotland – after living in England with husband, Tom, for almost two decades – that she realised the park had been the ­inspiration for the story.

She said: “I took my husband to the Fossil Grove [in Victoria Park] recently to show him where I used to play with friends as a kid.

“Against all safety and parental advice, we used to climb the rock faces around the quarry area and pretend to be explorers in a far-off place.

“It wasn’t until looking around that I realised – one of the countries in my book was entirely based around the environment of the Fossil Grove, or at least how it felt as a kid.

“Something unconscious became conscious right then.”

The novel takes place on another planet in a different universe, ­featuring Shamans, visionaries, mermaids and magic.

Its characters go on an incredible adventure travelling across ­universes and alien societies.

Adriana said: “Although things looked smaller than I remembered, that sense of wonder was still there.

“Like a Fraggle Rock of a thousand summer nights, playing with friends, beating imaginary storms and avalanches to reach the peaks of the boulders and with no limit on the imagination.”

She added: “As somebody from Glasgow, and I’m proud to be from Glasgow, it’s nice that something creative has come out of the very surroundings that I grew up.”

“I wouldn’t go and tell my niece or nephew to climb these things, but even just walking around it’s really special.

“It’s nice because it’s something you can do even just now with ­Covid.”

Both books are available on ­Amazon.