Why your veterinarian may refuse to euthanise your pet Though picturesque, life on the Yorkshire Dales was tough. When the two books were combined into All Creatures Great and Small for US publication, also in 1972, the omnibus volume had huge success. It had modest sales, as did the sequel It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet, published in 1972. His first published book, If Only They Could Talk, was published in Britain in 1970. He analysed books by authors whose work he enjoyed, including the humourist P.G. Wight kept diaries as a child and made copious professional notes, but began to write seriously in his 50s after his wife Joan encouraged him to do so. He lived in Yorkshire until his death in 1996. Following the end of the war, Wight worked as a vet in and around Thirsk until his retirement in 1989. He was in the Royal Air Force in 1942-3, but was discharged after being deemed unfit to fly for health reasons. He first worked in urban Sunderland, but moved to Thirsk after just six months as he wanted to be a country vet. He also wanted to protect the privacy of the people on whom his characters were based.īorn in England in 1916, Wight grew up and graduated from veterinary school in Scotland before returning to England to practice. He used a pseudonym because the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons did not allow vets to advertise. James Herriott was the pen name of Wight, a Yorkshire vet.
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