# Mr Fortune's Maggot

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- Book: [Mr Fortune's Maggot](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/mr-fortunes-maggot) ([Mr Fortune's Maggot.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/mr-fortunes-maggot.md))
- Authors: [Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-481-9
- Published: 2021-02-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, he begins to question all his old certainties - until one day he is put to a terrible test. A wry exploration of faith, colonialism and the demands of love, Mr Fortune's Maggot is as quietly subversive as it is delightful.