When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little
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 first
seems.
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. Who will triumph in an
election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, "The Casual Vacancy
"is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults.
