Mr Fortunes Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner Paperback Book 9780241476093

Witty poetic clairvoyant John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune exclerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank has found his vocation to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching Mr Fortunes good spirits cannot be dampened until one day his faith is put to a terrible testThis quizzical tale is so intensely moving Gillian Beer New StatesmanOriginal elegant and hypnotically strange Miranda Seymour The New York TimesSylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy John Carey