Jim Wight is the son of James Alfred Wight. He followed in his father’s footsteps at the Glasgow Veterinary College, which by then was part of the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1966. In 1967 he joined the practice of Sinclair and Wight in Thirsk, working alongside his father for the next twenty years. Jim is now retired and in 1999 wrote The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography.

  Rosie Page is the daughter of James Alfred Wight. Rosie studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and went on to be a partner in a successful GP practice in Thirsk from which she has now retired. The Wonderful World of James Herriot is her first book.

  ALSO BY JAMES HERRIOT

  All Creatures Great and Small

  All Things Bright and Beautiful

  All Things Wise and Wonderful

  The Lord God Made Them All

  Every Living Thing

  First published 2022 by Macmillan

  This electronic edition first published 2023 by Pan Books

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  ISBN 978-1-0350-0852-0

  Copyright © The James Herriot Partnership 2022

  Cover illustrations by Claire Harrup

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  Internal illustrations by Claire Harrup

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