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If Only They Could Talk

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A Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of the first of James Herriot’s brilliantly funny memoirs about life as a Yorkshire vet.

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SKU: 9781509824892 Category: CLASSICS Tags: Animal husbandry, Autobiography: general, Farm & working animals, Humour, Memoirs, The countryside, country life, Veterinary medicine: large animals (domestic / farm)
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Season two of the hit TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is now showing on Channel 5, featuring Sam West as Siegfried Farnon.

‘James Herriot’s books have had a lasting and profound effect on my life’ Amanda Owen

This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of If Only They Could Talk features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess and author Amanda Owen.

To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges: from his new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to herds of semi-feral cattle and gruff farmers with incomprehensible accents.

Heart-breaking and hilarious in equal measure, If Only They Could Talk is the first volume of classic memoirs which chronicle James Herriot’s first years as country vet in the 1930’s.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of If Only They Could Talk features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess and author Amanda Owen.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.

Weight 0.158 kg
Dimensions 15.6 × 10.1 × 1.8 cm
Author

Herriot, James

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Imprint

Macmillan Collector's Library

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition

Main Market Ed.

Dewey

636.089092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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