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 is a heart-warming story of determination, love
and companionship from one of Britain?s best-loved authors.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 . . .