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Nick was born in the sunny vale of Manchester, in North-West England, back when everyone else was busy wearing flared trousers and purple shirts. He has continued to be out of step with fashion ever since.
Thanks to a certain ‘Mr Herriot’ Nick’s childhood ambition was to become a veterinary surgeon, an ambition that was only strengthened after a soul-scarring week working in the Coronation Street Shop at Granada Studios tour for his schoolwork experience. He still sometimes wakes at night screaming about a shelf full of Vera Duckworth mugs smashing, and to this day the sound of the Beach Boys (which was, for some reason, played in the shop on a 24-hour loop) brings him out in a cold sweat.
Several years later, after five years at Bristol University (during which time he was promoted from a lowly ‘one-pint wonder’ to an impressive ‘three-pint wonder), Nick found himself out in the real world, qualified as a vet.
Soul Purpose was written as a response to his first few years at the sharp end of veterinary life. He now works as a small animal vet in Plymouth, and is feeling much better, thank you. If he ever wonders whether he is in the right job, he hums the first few bars of ‘I get around’ to himself, and knows that things could have been much, much worse.
Meet the Family
Nick is married to his darling wife Kerry who simply adores having her picture taken, and will be overjoyed to learn that she is now on the internet.
Kerry has instilled in Nick a love of greyhounds, lurchers, and other dogs that tend to cut themselves open on a regular basis. Here are Katie and Geri – the canine equivalents of Pinky and the Brain. Also here is the much-missed one who started it all, Beattie.
Nick once swore he would never even go out with a horsey woman, let alone marry one. Nevertheless, he seems to have ended up supporting three of the bloody things – Boy, Sophie and Emily. Emily came out of Sophie, and anyone who calls it ‘the miracle of birth’ has never had to pull one horse out of another in the middle of the bloody night.
Last, but not least, meet Vienna. Please don’t let the picture fool you. She’s a killer. A killer!!
So, now you know all you need to about Nick and his family. Now, stop reading this and go buy a book!
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