Mr Fortune´s Maggot

´Witty, poetic, clairvoyant´ John Updike The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk 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 Fortune´s good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test. ´This quizzical tale is so intensely moving´ Gillian Beer, New Statesman ´Original, elegant and hypnotically strange´ Miranda Seymour, The New York Times ´Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy´ John Carey