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...