Mr Fortune'S Maggot Av Sylvia Townsend Warner

<p><b>''Witty, poetic, clairvoyant'' John Updike</b><br><br>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.<br><br>''This quizzical tale is so intensely moving'' Gillian Beer, <i>New Statesman<br></i><br>''Original, elegant and hypnotically strange'' Miranda Seymour, <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>''Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy'' John Carey</p>