It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet
by James Herriot (Michael Joseph, 1972)
audiobook read by Nicholas Ralph (Macmillan, 2020) [as part of “All Creatures Great and Small”]
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The second book carries on much as the first, only with more attention paid to Herriot’s personal life. The sense of an awkward, not-quite-funny romantic comedy trying to break through detracts a little from the quirky, back-of-beyond comedy already plying its trade.