{"product_id":"9780860680437","title":"Mister Fortune's Maggot","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when a 'maggot' impels him to embark on what he describes as a 'sort of pious escapade' - an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr Fortune is a good man, humble, earnest - he wishes to bring the joys of Christianity to the innocent heathen. But in his three years on Fanua he makes only one convert - the boy Lueli, who loves him. This love, and the sensuous freedom of the islanders produces in Mr Fortune a change of heart which is shattering...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully imagined, the paradise island and its people are as vivid as a Gauguin painting. Told with the driest of wise humour, touching and droll by turns, its theme - that we can never love anything without messing it about - is only one of the delights of this enchanting book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027231097072,"sku":"9780860680437","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780860680437_p0.jpg?v=1763835609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780860680437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}