Thurso vet Guy Gordon – star of The Highland Vet – has written a book to tie-in with the hit TV show
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Fans of the popular TV show The Highland Vet will be pleased to know that filming has started on a new series of the documentary which is set locally.
Centred round the veterinary practice of DS McGregor & Partners in Thurso, the show has smashed viewing figure records for Channel 5’s 5Select.
As a result Penguin Random House are delighted to announce the publication of the official TV tie-in book by the star of the show, practice director Guy Gordon.
A Year at Thurso is set to be released on April 28 under the Ebury Spotlight imprint. The series is narrated by the much-loved Downton actress, Phyllis Logan, who has written a foreword to the book.
The vets at Thurso cover a vast rural area of over a thousand square miles. Some of the wild and extreme landscape in which they operate brings a huge variety of work depending on the seasons, with the delivery of new-born lambs and calves in the spring, and the arrival of seal pups to the northern Scottish coast in the autumn months.
The Highland Vet shows what working in one of Britain’s most beautiful and remote locations really involves. In the book, Guy and his team share the highs and lows, ups and downs and the ins and outs of their daily work throughout the course of a year.
It is a magical celebration of Scotland’s northern Highlands, as well as the animals and people who call the region their home. As Guy says: "Even on the worst of days up here, it’s very hard to feel anything but blessed."
Guy graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and worked in Fife and Perthshire before moving to Thurso in 1997. He and his team of vets, nurses and support staff are the stars of the popular Channel 5 show.
