James Herriot If Only They Could Talk/It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet/Let Sleeping Vets Lie/Vet in Harness/Vets Might Fly/Vet in a Spin(1990)

James Herriot

ISBN: 1-85052-003-8 ISBN 13:9781850520030

This volume contains six of the delightful books which established James Harriot as one of the foremost and wittiest writers about animals, and formed a bases for a film and highly successful television series.

The wild unspoiled beauty of the Yorkshire Dales provides the background to his vivid evocation of the daily ups and downs of a 1930s veterinary practice. At any time of day or night, through fair weather or foul, his calls take him to attend an infinite variety of animals.

With engaging warmth, humour and modesty, James Harriot describes his development from raw recruit to respected friend and partner of his boss and mentor, Siegfried Farnon. His gift for lively narrative and comic description includes acute and witty observations of human as well as animal behaviour.

He introduces us to such memorable characters as the spoilt Pekingese, Tricki Woo, and Gertrude, the beer-swilling pig, and reveals all the hilarity and frustration of his daily encounters with the local people, whose courage and fortitude he admires. His fascinating medical knowledge, his infectious enthusiasm and love for both his patients and their owners, bring the rural world of North Yorkshire vividly to life.