Description
| Product ID: | 9781509824892 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | If Only They Could Talk |
| Authors: | Author: James Herriot |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Veterinary medicine, Veterinary medicine, Yorkshire, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A Macmillan Collector's Library edition of the first of James Herriot's brilliantly funny memoirs about life as a Yorkshire vet. <p><b>Season two of the hit TV adaptation of </b><b><i>All Creatures Great and Small is </i></b><b>now showing on Channel 5, featuring </b><b>Sam West as Siegfried Farnon.</b><br><br><b>'James Herriot's books have had a lasting and profound effect on my life' Amanda Owen<br></b><br>This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of <i>If Only They Could Talk </i> features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess and author Amanda Owen. <br><br>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.<br><br>Heart-breaking and hilarious in equal measure, <i>If Only They Could Talk</i> is the first volume of classic memoirs which chronicle James Herriot's first years as country vet in the 1930's.<br><br>This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of <i>If Only They Could Talk</i> features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess and author Amanda Owen.<br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-01-26 |