Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 19, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories and translated into 79 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films. The audio edition of The Casual Vacancy will be read by Tom Hollander, an experienced star of stage and screen. It is the work o f a storyteller like no other. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?Ī big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K.
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 first seems.Īnd the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. 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 Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. As a writer you have to write what you want to write or rather what you need to write. This is my attempt to do a modern version. I love nineteenth century novels that centre on a town or village. “The Casual Vacancy is set in a small community, which involved writing characters who are adolescents all the way up to people in their sixties.
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