To Be Continued Av James Robertson

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017</b><br><br><b>An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of <i>And the Land lay Still</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 . . .</p>