Zoe, single and in her thirties, is being evicted from her apartment. She can't cook, or finish the novel she is writing. Then she meets Le Grand Alain, aka the Frog. Lord of his own kitchen and able to invent recipes at the drop of a consonant, the unstoppable Frog lives to cook and eat. He invites Zoe to move in with him.As Zoe's fascination with her flatmate grows, the Frog emerges as a maddening and wonderful comic creation, a man who bathes with the trout he will cook, who believes leek soup cures almost anything and who has an unusual fixation on pigs' trotters.So begins a riotous adventure and an unlikely courtship that spans two continents, involves the art world, psychiatrists, farmers, chickens and the police, and climaxes in spectacular fashion at the mother of all dinner parties.
