“Massively readable, full of rich anecdote, amusing characters.” Gervase Phinn
“Reminiscent of James Herriot.” The Dalesman
"A great story-teller" Newcastle Chronicle
The author of the best-selling The Inn at the Top is back with more tales of the highest inn in Britain, in the most wild and windswept corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Joining the extraordinary cast of local characters are a theatrical pet piglet, a punk barmaid with shocking pink hair, two Australian handymen and a Walter Mittyesque chef.
The naive young couple who ran the inn in the late 1970s return and buy it five years later. Stumbling from one crisis to another, they somehow transform it from a decrepit local curiosity into a thriving, nationally-known inn. They also “conquer Everest” by getting the double-glazing company to film a TV commercial at the inn. 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 characters who inhabit it, Pigs Might fly paints an unforgettable portrait of a unique place and way of life in a now-vanished era.
“Reminiscent of James Herriot.” The Dalesman
"A great story-teller" Newcastle Chronicle
The author of the best-selling The Inn at the Top is back with more tales of the highest inn in Britain, in the most wild and windswept corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Joining the extraordinary cast of local characters are a theatrical pet piglet, a punk barmaid with shocking pink hair, two Australian handymen and a Walter Mittyesque chef.
The naive young couple who ran the inn in the late 1970s return and buy it five years later. Stumbling from one crisis to another, they somehow transform it from a decrepit local curiosity into a thriving, nationally-known inn. They also “conquer Everest” by getting the double-glazing company to film a TV commercial at the inn. 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 characters who inhabit it, Pigs Might fly paints an unforgettable portrait of a unique place and way of life in a now-vanished era.
