We are going to a farmer with a sick big cart horse. Siegfried has a very old car and he drives very fast, looks out of the window and often stops suddenly. Mr Farnon shows me the country and he is testing me. He says that he will show me the country around. Mr Farnon is arrived and he shows me his house what there is: the dispensary, the instruments and the operating room. Two people come to see the vet, Mr Farnon, but he is not at home and James cannot help them, because he cannot understand them.Ĭhapter 2: Siegfried Farnon (pages: 11-13) His housekeeper gives him tea and then she goes away. When he has arrived Mr Farnon is not at home.
James had just past his exams to be a vet, and now he is going to find a job in Yorkshire. The stories are nice, but sometimes difficult to read. You can read some chapters and stop then. They talk and do things that we could do also. Observer After an evening among his tales, anyone with as much as a dog or a budgerigar will feel he should move to Darrowby at once.It is a nice book. Kate Humble It’s a pleasure to be in James Herriot’s company. 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. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.īulls with sunstroke, pigs on the run and a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit. Heart-breaking and hilarious in equal measure, If Only They Could Talk is the first volume of classic memoirs which chronicle James Herriot's first years as country vet in the 1930's.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. 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. To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of If Only They Could Talk features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess and author Amanda Owen. 'James Herriot's books have had a lasting and profound effect on my life' Amanda Owen Season two of the hit TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is now showing on Channel 5, featuring Sam West as Siegfried Farnon.
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