Maggot A

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, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a startling vision at its centre.