All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
99p Daily Deal at Amazon UK. This is the omnibus of the first two books in the series -
If Only They Could Talk and
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. I really can't recommend them highly enough - terrific series of books.
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The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offers 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 find 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…
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