![]() Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter publication, and her first adult novel, so does it really matter what it’s about? As of today, one week after its release, The Casual Vacancy is #3 in Amazon’s sales rankings. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?īut, of course, this is J. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I first read Amazon’s description of The Casual Vacancy, I can’t say I was immediately bowled over: ![]()
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