TheCasualVacancy

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford, seemingly an English idyll with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, is in fact a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, and teachers at war with their pupils; Pagford is not what it first seems. The empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. An election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations is about to take place, and only one side can triumph. The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, is blackly comic, thought-provoking, and constantly surprising.

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J.K.RowlingistheauthorofthebestsellingHarryPotterseriesofsevenbooks,publishedbetween1997and2007,whichhavesoldover450millioncopiesworldwide,aredistributedinmorethan200territories,translatedinto73languages,andhavebeenturnedintoeightblockbusterfilms.Shehasalsowrittentwosmallvolumes,whichappearasthetitlesofHarry’sschoolb...