No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now in this warm and poignant biography Jim Wight ventures beyond his fathers life as a veterinarian to reveal the man behind the storiesthe private individual who refused to allow fame and wealth to interfere with his practice or his family. With access to all of his fathers papers correspondence manuscripts and photographsand intimate recollections of the farmers locals and friends who populate the James Herriot booksonly Jim Wight could write this definitive biography of the man who was not only his father but his best friend. show more