Tag: Nicholas Ralph

It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet

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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”]

Book cover: “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet” by James Herriot (Michael Joseph, 1972); review of the audiobook read by Nicholas Ralph (Macmillan, 2020) [as part of “All Creatures Great and Small”]

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.

If Only They Could Talk

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If Only They Could Talk

by James Herriot (Michael Joseph, 1970)

audiobook read by Nicholas Ralph (Macmillan, 2020) [as part of “All Creatures Great and Small”]

Book cover: “If Only They Could Talk” by James Herriot (Michael Joseph, 1970); audiobook read by Nicholas Ralph (Macmillan, 2020) [as part of “All Creatures Great and Small”]

Gentle memoirs of a young vet in 1930s Yorkshire. While Herriot’s story has been adapted into films and TV series, this first book retains its own distinct charm through humorous self-observation, setting, and the three principal characters, well voiced here by Ralph.