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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling, which opens with the death of Barry Fairbrother, a beloved parish councillor in the town of Pagford. Before his death, he was working to keep the neglected council estate where he grew up part of Pagford, much to the chagrin of some of his more snobbish colleagues. His death brings previously unspoken tensions to the surface and reveals the dark underbelly lurking beneath the town¿s placid exterior, with lives marred by sexual abuse, drug addiction and domestic violence. J.K Rowling is best-known for her Harry Potter books, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world; The Casual Vacancy is her first novel written for an adult readership.

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