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Every Living Thing

The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

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Every Living Thing

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
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The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.

In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative patient, the delightful Tricki Woo.

There are some some new arrivals too, such as the abandoned and terrified mongrol Titch who finds the perfect home with a gruff grocer, and feral kittens Olly and Ginny who live in James and wife Helen's back garden. Above all, the veterinary practise in Darrowby is enlivened by a marvelouslly eccentric assistant, Calum Buchanan, who arrives with a pet badger and proceeds to add dogs, owls and a monkey called Mortimer to his growing menagerie.

Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Full of unique characers, funny and touching, Every Living Thing is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

'I grew up reading James Herriot's books and I'm delighted that thirty years on, they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then' – Kate Humble

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Bulls with sunstroke, pigs on the run and a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit . . . I grew up reading James Herriot's book and I'm delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then (Kate Humble)
Herriot's enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight (Amanda Owen, bestselling author of The Yorkshire Shepherdess)
The attraction of Herriot’s ever popular memoirs of a country vet . . . is their alternating highs and lows, humour and pathos, and gripping anecdotes about delivering lambs, grumpy farmers, hypochondriac pet-owners, stroppy cows and blunt Yorkshire characters
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Fantastic series with the perfect narrator, just wish the whole series was available unabridged! Great for fans of the Dales, and every aspiring vet.

Perfect cosy read

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Interesting, entertaining, funny, moving - everything we expect from a James Herriot and read fabulously by Christopher Timothy who spent so many years playing Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small

Classic Herriot!

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A tender and charming memoir, brought to life by a gifted storyteller. Not to be missed

Perfection

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There is a kind of warmth of inclusion in this sort of autobiographical narrative that invites its readers to share. And for a short, socially unjudgemental, time enjoy something like friendship with someone you are never likely to know.

The social atmosphere of the work.

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Loved the stories. Great narration he brought the stories to life so very well. Super.

Great book

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