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Overview: Alex Duncan is the author of the original bestselling vet books, four of which are currently available on Amazon as e-books: It’s A Vet’s Life, A Vet Has Nine Lives, Vets in the Belfry, and Vets in Congress. Before her medical training at St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities (BSc, MB, ChB), Alex Duncan was born Elisabeth Magda Herzog in 1919 in present-day Chernivtsi. She was the daughter of an Austrian police officer and lawyer who later moved with his family to Wiener Neustadt, close to Vienna. There she lived during her childhood and teenage years, until early 1939 when she emigrated to England to escape the Nazi terror. Her parents perished in the war. Completely on her own, she managed to live through the war mostly working as an au-pair and as a companion for elderly ladies.
After the end of the war she met her future husband, Captain Alexander MacFarlane, a medical doctor from Glasgow, and completed her medical training. Back to England, the couple lived and practised in Sussex, where she also started her career as an author. She has written under various noms de plume more than 40 books, from biography and historical novels to crime, short stories and humour. Her pen names were Madelaine Duke ("Duke" being the English word for "Herzog"), Alex Duncan and Leslie Heron. Once her husband retired in the early 1980s, they moved to southern Spain (near Gibraltar), where they remained until the end of their lives; she died in 1996, one year after her husband´s death.
Genre: Fiction > General > Humour
1. It’s A Vet’s Life
It’s A Vet’s Life’ is the first in an 8-book series based on the hilarious life of vet Michael Morton and the animals and owners in his care. Michael’s uncle Simon has taken a sabbatical from his Knightsbridge practice to go on Safari, leaving his newly qualified nephew in charge, with the promise of a partnership if he can introduce six regular new clients before his return.
This is London, 1961: The Cold War is raging; the class system is crumbling; teenagers have money in their pockets for the first time. And the animal problems that Michael encounters seem rooted in those of their owners as they adjust to the changing times. But when Michael finds romance with the strikingly attractive Julia Hanley, and debutante Claire Brown-Claremont steps in with her colour co-ordinated Siamese cats, it is anybody s guess whether, for all his humanity and humour, Uncle Simon’s challenge will be met in time.
2. A Vet Has Nine Lives
A Vet Has Nine Lives, written six years before James Herriot first put pen to paper, is the second in this entertaining series of books based on the hilarious exploits of a vet who was practising in London and the Home Counties in the late 1950s.Young Michael Morton has agreed to do a locum for fellow vet Phil Brogan in the quintessentially English village of Craftley and soon realises that change is threatening the old-world values of this rural Surrey idyll.Chemicals have come to farming for the first time. Foot-and-mouth disease is spreading like wild fire. Property developers are looking greedily at this corner of England’s green and pleasant land.The village is feeling its way into the post-war world of new freedoms, profit and pretentious artiness. So complete a microcosm of the wider world is it that a miniature Cold War is only narrowly averted when the Russian colt Princeling II arrives with its jockey at Craftley Manor stables.Michael is as likely to be dealing with cows, race horses and an owl with an upset stomach as he is the doggies and pussies of his uncle’s London practice. But, as ever, matters of the heart are never far from the surface. When his fiancée, Julia, calls off their wedding and a 20-year feud erupts over an Ayrshire bull that has found its way in amongst the local dairy herd, it is clear that this vet is going to need all of his proverbial nine lives just to survive.
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