A Maggot — 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 unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre