The Casual Vacancy

by J.K. Rowling

Book Overview

A big novel about a small town...

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa ade is a town at war.

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 not what it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316228583
• ISBN13: 9780316228589
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Torture

Tried to keep going...even got past page 100, but could go no further. Was like a descent into Dante Inferno.

Depressing

I tried but couldn’t force myself to keep reading past the first few pages. So sorry, because I think JK Rowling is a brilliant author, but his is just an expose of the worst in humanity.