To Be Continued

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017

An utterly mad entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of And the Land lay Still

Douglas is fifty years old - he's just lost his job been kicked out by his girlfriend and 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 - and he is determined to get Douglas's life back on track. Together man and 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 alcoholic/teetotaller a reluctant whisky-smuggler and the elusive glimmer of redemption . . .