A Maggot Pocket Books Jimmie Johnston first became a

Jimmie Johnston first became a Labour MP in Cumbria when there was a brave new post-war world to build

The scent of blood is in the water

Single-girl Penny just wants to be loved

and triumphing on your own

A Maggot Pocket Books Jimmie Johnston first became aIn 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.