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The casual vacancy

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  • Author: Rowling, J. K.
    Contributor: Apple Alex (synthetic)
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    2012
    Summary:

    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 facade 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?

    Genre:
    Domestic fiction
    Subject(s): City council members -- Death -- Fiction | Country life -- England -- Fiction | England -- Fiction | Local elections -- Fiction
    Original Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co. 2012, Victoria Park, WA Australia, Association for the Blind of Western Australia
    Language(s): English