About the Author

James Herriot (1916-1995) was the pen name of James Alfred 'Alf' Wight, whose tales of veterinary practice and country life in the Yorkshire Dales have delighted generations. Many of Herriot's works - including All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All and Every Living Thing - became international bestsellers and have been adapted for film and television.

Rosie Page and Jim Wight are Herriot's children. Rosie became a doctor and Jim was a vet.

Reviews

It cleverly interweaves extracts from his novels, with an interesting commentary from his son and daughter . . . their memories and anecdotes augment the stories and make delightful reading
*Yorkshire Times*

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, on the works of James Herriot*

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, on the works on James Herriot*

The attraction of Herriot’s ever popular memoirs of a country vet . . . is their alternating highs and lows, humour and pathos, and gripping anecdotes about delivering lambs, grumpy farmers, hypochondriac pet-owners, stroppy cows and blunt Yorkshire characters. And, of course, there’s a powerful nostalgia element in these stories about our green and pleasant land in the day before the ravages of ribbon development
*Daily Mail, on the works of James Herriot*