The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small<\/i>. <\/b>This edition contains If Only They Could Talk <\/i>and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet<\/i>.
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Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James finds he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world can’t help him . . .<\/p>\n
Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small<\/i> is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.<\/p>\n
‘I grew up reading James Herriot’s books and I’m delighted that thirty years on, they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then’ – Kate Humble<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Herriot’s enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight’ – Amanda Owen, bestselling author of The Yorkshire Shepherdess<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The highs and lows of being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales are perfectly captured in James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small <\/i>which contains If Only They Could Talk<\/i> and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641],"product_tag":[1161,1195,259,753,6886],"class_list":["post-100661","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-biography","product_tag-animal-husbandry","product_tag-autobiography-literary","product_tag-memoirs","product_tag-the-countryside-country-life","product_tag-veterinary-medicine-large-animals-domestic-farm","pa_book_author-herriot-james","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-636-089092-edition23","pa_edition-omnibus-edition","pa_imprint-pan-books","pa_language-english","pa_pages-10176","pa_publisher-pan-books","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n