When Mother starts showing an interest in passion-flowers the children decide it is time she got married again.
The romantic island of Corfu is unable to produce many suitable candidates, but there is the 18-year-old who runs the fish stall, Professor Eurpides Androtheomatacottopolous, or the dashing Hollywood actor, Antoine de Vere...
Meanwhile young Gerry is more concerned about the marital affairs of his toads than those of his mother in the title story of this hilarious collection of tales.