The Magus 3 of 3 by John Fowles

John Fowles The Magus Episode 3 of 3 Conchis brings his masque at Bourani to an end but is everything – or everyone – what they seem? What trick has Conchis really been playing on Nicholas? The conclusion of John Fowles’ cult novel dramatised by Adrian Hodges. Starring Tom Burke, Charles Dance and Hayley Atwell. Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis’s estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a striking resemblance to Conchis’s long dead fiancée, reality and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling him the truth? Tom Burk