The Casual Vacancy
- ISBN-10
- 0316228591
- ISBN-13
- 9780316228596
- Series
- The Casual Vacancy
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 656
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-30
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Author
- J. K. Rowling
Description
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 façade 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 first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Vacancy
By K. R. AlexanderThe latest chilling frightfest from horror master K. R. Alexander . . . this time centering around a spooky hotel where guests do NOT check out the way they check in.
-
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
By J. K. RowlingThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination J. K. Rowling. What I feared most for myself at your age was.
-
The Ink Black Heart: Cormoran Strike, Book 6
By Robert Galbraith. . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. *Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*
-
The Digested Read
By John CracePhilip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Drabble, Paul Auster, Alice Sebold, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk ...
-
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
By Bright SummariesUnlock the more straightforward side of The Casual Vacancy with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
-
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
By Carole AngierThe first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind.
-
Troubled Blood
By Robert GalbraithIn the epic fifth installment in this “compulsively readable” (People) series, Galbraith’s “irresistible hero and heroine” (USA Today) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet.
-
God Save the Dork
By Sidin VadukutMaestro management consultant and strategy guru Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese has been dispatched to London to the Lederman account.
-
The Ickabog
Featuring full color illustrations by children from across the United States and Canada, this original fairy tale from one of the world's most celebrated storytellers will captivate readers of all ages.
-
The Music Shop: A Novel
By Rachel Joyce. . . This lovely novel is as satisfying and enlightening as the music that suffuses its every page.”—The Boston Globe “Magnificent . . .