SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017 An utterly mad entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of & the Land lay Still Douglas is fifty years old
- he's just lost his job been kicked out by his girlfriend & moved back into his dad's house Just when things are starting to look hopeless he makes a very unexpected new friend a talking toad Mungo is a wise-cracking straight-talking no-nonsense kind of toad
- & he is determined to get Douglas's life back on track Together man & beast undertake a madcap quest to the distant Highlands hot on the trail of a hundred-year-old granny a beautiful Greek nymph a split-personality alcoholicteetotaller a reluctant whisky-smuggler & the elusive glimmer of redemption