A Maggot Author:John Fowles In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unacc... more »ountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.« less