Pigs Might Fly: Tales of Life at the Highest Inn in Britain

“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, and “conquer Everest” when 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 Hanson has crammed an awful lot of living into just one life. He has travelled around the world twice; been a plasterer's mate, an ice cream salesman and a holiday camp redcoat; was simultaneously an art critic and a rugby league commentator; the editor of the Good Beer Guide; the owner of the highest pub in England; a book reviewer, travel writer and critic; and a radio broadcaster for the BBC and in Australia and New Zealand. He has written for every British national newspaper and for media around the world, made guest appearances on everything from BBC Television's flagship news program to Australia's top-rated radio show and NBC's Today Show. He is also a highly successful after-dinner speaker and has written sixty published books.
Neil is also the author of an acclaimed series of popular histories: The Custom of the Sea; The Dreadful Judgement; The Confident Hope of a Miracle; The Unknown Soldier; First Blitz; Monk Eastman; and Escape From Germany. Critics around the world have hailed them as "brilliant", "compelling", "a triumph" and "a masgterpiece".
He lives in the Yorkshire Dales with his family.

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