![]() ![]() Parts of the story would be tonally of a piece with any Richard Price or Dennis Lehane novel, or an episode of The Wire. The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world.intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny., The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling's first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed.Jane Austen herself would admire the way shows the news of Barry's death spreading like a virus round Pagford., There are plenty of pleasures to be had in The Casual Vacancy. ![]() A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. ![]()
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