Sylvia Townsend Warner

Mr Fortune's Maggot

Novel of a missionary's spiritual crisis and forbidden love on a remote South Pacific island

About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Warner was a brilliantly versatile writer whose work encompassed fantasy, historical fiction, social comedy, and beautifully crafted short stories. Lolly Willowes, her first novel, is a subtle feminist fantasy of liberation.

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