Pigs Might Fly

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Reminiscent of James Herriot.The Dalesman Massively readable, full of rich anecdote, amusing characters.Gervase Phinn The author of the best-selling The Inn at the Top is back with more tales of the highest inn in Britain, deep in the Yorkshire Dales and just over the moor from the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Joining the cast of local characters are a theatrical pig, a spiky punk barmaid, two Australian handymen and a Walter Mittyesque chef. The naive young couple who ran the decrepit inn in the late 1970s return as its new owners. Stumbling from one crisis to another, they somehow make the inn famous, andconquer Everestwhen the double-glazing company film a TV commercial there. Enter Ted Moult and his famous feather to keep the gales off the ales Full of warmth and humour, the beauty of the Dales countryside and the quirks of the local inhabitants, Pigs Might Fly paints an unforgettable portrait of a unique place and way of life in a now-vanished era. About the Author Neil

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