Vets might fly

A few months of married bliss, a lover’s nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. RAF training proves tough for James but you can’t keep a good vet down . .

From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, this fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. And in-between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he has left behind him.

‘There are funny cases, sad cases, farm animals and pets, downright farmers, ladies of refinement, hard-bitten NCOs and, of course, the immortal Siegfried and Tristan’
– Sunday Times