Shortlisted For The Wodehouse Comic Fiction Prize 2017an Utterly Mad, Entirely Heart-warming Highland Adventure From The Man Booker-longlisted Author Of And The Land Lay Stilldouglas 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 Alcoholicteetotaller, A Reluctant Whisky-smuggler, And The Elusive Glimmer Of Redemption.