“‘You really would love him to grow bigger, wouldn’t you?’ Mr Hoppy said, and even as he said it his mind suddenly went click and an amazing idea came rushing into his head.”

A warm-hearted story of a very shy man who’s in love with a very kind woman, and of the small tortoise that brings them together. Mr Hoppy's wildly ingenious plot to win the love of Mrs Silver will delight and amaze, involving as it does a cryptic riddle and no fewer than a hundred and forty tortoises, large and small.