![]() ![]() ![]() Often, he has to get up in the middle of the night to wrestle with cows in cold byres, but he finds occasional reprieve in cozy visits to Tricky-Woo, an overfed Pekinese. He sews up horse hocks and performs TB tests and always seems to be getting invited round to supper. Given the abiding collective affection for All Creatures Great and Small’s particular brand of rural anecdote, this letter of recommendation may be superfluous.īut for those unfamiliar: Fresh out of veterinary school, Herriot trundles around the countryside under the tutelage of his boss, Siegfried. It was the inspiration for a hit 1978 TV show (PBS Masterpiece is shooting a revival as I write), and the author’s birthplace has become a kind of theme park. Herriot’s memoir-a collection of stories about his time as a young vet in the Yorkshire Dales-has sold something in the region of eighty million copies. And none, to my mind, provide more potent relief than James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. Recently, the “comfort book,” while still squirreled away in the relative privacy of bedroom bookshelves, has felt more necessary than ever. ![]()
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