Review
Do you remember
James Herriot's warm and funny stories
recollecting his time as a vet to the Yorkshire
farming community during the 1940s and 50s; stories
made all the more poignant because you felt you were
visiting a people and a place that no longer
existed? I grew up on those stories - when
All
Creatures Great and Small was published in 1972
I was eight years old; by the time
The Lord God
Made Them All came out in 1982, I was eighteen.
James Herriot was my J.K. Rowling and I have never
come across another writer quite like him since, so
it was a very happy surprise to open the
unprepossessing covers of
Heart in the Right
Place to discover that the observant wit and wisdom
of Herriot lives on in Carolyn Jourdan's true...
Beyond the Book
Carolyn Jourdan is a former U.S.
Senate Counsel to the Committee
on Environment and Public Works
and the Committee on
Governmental Affairs (now
Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs). She has
degrees from the University of
Tennessee in Biomedical
Engineering and Law. She lives
on the family farm in East Knox
County, Tennessee, and has seven
stray animals (four dogs and
three cats).
Heart In The
Right Place takes place over
the course of a year in the
early 1990s when her life
changed dramatically when her
mother, Elise Jourdan,...
