The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be - at work in the dales around Darrowby. Much has changed, but the blunt-spoken Yorkshire folk and the host of four-legged patients are still the same. So is their vet, who doesn't yet know that literary success is just around the corner... 'After an evening among his tales, anyone with as much as a dog or a budgerigar will feel he should move to Darrowby at once' Yorkshire Post 'Wonderful tales... a joyous book, a celebration of life itself' Publishers Weekly

### Review

"This is Herriot at his best...able to make us laugh, cry or nod in agreement with some snippet of universal truth." --*The Washington Post*

"A triumph in the art of storytelling, as delightful and refreshing to the mind's eye and heart as a field of bright-eyed daisies." --*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*

### Review

"This is Herriot at his best. . . able to make us laugh, cry or nod in agreement with some snippet of universal truth."
--*The Washington Post*

"Herriot is a spellbinder as a storyteller."
---*The Seattle Times*

"James Herriot is a pied piper with the written word. He eases his readers into loving, liking and laughing at familiar characters, animal and human."
--*The Los Angeles Times*

"A master storyteller with flawless timing."
--*The Houston Post*

"Herriot's book just explodes with the joy of living and loving and caring."
--*The Columbus Dispatch*

"The warm of Herriot's prose approaches poetic. . . . a master storyteller."
--*Knight-Ridder Newspapers*

"A triumph in the art of storytelling, as delightful and refreshing to the mind's eye and heart as a field of bright-eyed daisies."
--*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*