Title: Poorly researched and highly speculative
Product review: This can barely be called a biography. The writing gives little insight into the personality and life of "James Herriott." Rather it is a poorly researched and highly speculative conglomerate of anecdotes and opinions. The author makes lots of suppositions about many aspects of his subject's life with little to back up his conclusions. Much is made of the fiction versus non-fiction content of the "All Creatures Great and Small" books, as if it would be incredibly shocking (apparently especially shocking to Americans) to the reader. I love those books and it came as no surprise to me that a good amount of the work is fiction or fictionalized. Mr. Lord has taken what is, essentialy, a newspaper piece (and not a very good one) and streched it into a book. Herriot fans deserve a solid biography of Alf Wight. This isn't it.
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