The novel has no connection whatsoever (I love to use that word when we're talking about something English. Can you hear my British accent?) to the Harry Potter series.
In the publisher's website, the book description reads,
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 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 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.
The book will be available worldwide on September 27, 2012. I can see it now, people in a long line outside bookstores, tents, cameramen interviewing them, them saying they've been there days or hours before 9 or ten in the morning of the 27th. It would be like a zombie attack!
I need to plan this whole thing the way Mr. Harvey plans his killings. I wish you luck, people-who-will-be-witnessing-the-wrath-of-my-elbows, I wish you luck.
Published on Tumblr last June 8th, 2012
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