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Three poetic novellas centered on the author's background of growing up as the child of a veterinarian.
Full of humor and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore's vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family's births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles of road in their vast jurisdictions during harsh winters and muddy, ruthless springs. Travelling from small towns in northern BC, to the south of France and Fiji, sometimes in the span of a night, and sometimes over a lifetime, the men and women in Night Watch, work with their hands, keep their hearts in check, and strain to define themselves, against the backdrop of an unforgiving, job that puts them, at the mercy of the elements, and each other.
Full of humor and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore's vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family's births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles of road in their vast jurisdictions during harsh winters and muddy, ruthless springs. Travelling from small towns in northern BC, to the south of France and Fiji, sometimes in the span of a night, and sometimes over a lifetime, the men and women in Night Watch, work with their hands, keep their hearts in check, and strain to define themselves, against the backdrop of an unforgiving, job that puts them, at the mercy of the elements, and each other.