I am not usually considered a softy, but if I hadn’t been sitting around several hundred people in a plane when I finished this book, I might have broken down in tears! Herriot’s tales build with a slowly developing plot that moves along in a predictably reliable manner-that is, until the last section of the book, when they surprise and delight us in unexpected ways. And if seasoned and entertaining writing is any indication that a book will be a classic, then All Creatures Great and Small will most likely still be read and enjoyed 100 years from today. His memoir is presented as a series of short-stories., but it reads as if it were a seasoned classic English nineteenth-century novel written by the likes of Thomas Hardy.
Herriot narrates these anecdotes from the first-person nostalgic point of view and published it in 1972 after he had retired from his practice. He felt lucky to get an invitation to interview for and ultimately receive an offer to work as the veterinary assistant with Siegfried Farnon’s practice, even though it was in an extremely isolated area. He recalls that many of his newly licensed classmates could not get jobs during those times in the fields that they had trained. The author of the best-selling book, All Creatures Great and Small, writes about his forty-year career as a veterinarian in the rural and remote region of Yorkshire, England. Animals are unpredictable things.Our life is an unpredictable tale of little triumphs and disasters, and you’ve got to really like it to stick to it.” James HerriotĪccording to James Herriot’s memory and to history, economic times were tough in England during the worldwide Depression of the 1930s.
“You never know what’s in store for you in our profession.
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