"Daniel MacBaine has written a scathingly satirical first novel in which he depicts his former lover Caroline Hoskins as a boorish "Texas Cow". And now Caroline, claiming to be his "muse", has pursued him all the way to his swanky Paris hotel room to force him to write a sequel in which he shows how much she's changed.

But can she overcome Daniel's epic case of writer's block when according to him, she's the main cause? Enter Charles Henry Duprey, a high-strung French translator in "pointy" shoes, and the result is comic mayhem. Feydeau on steroids."