RAF training proves tough for James but you can't keep a good vet down. A few months of married bliss, a lover's nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted by James Herriot by the Second World War.
James Herriot's fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. In between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he left behind him.