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 at 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.

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alexandra

I loved it!!! The best of JK Rowling

Commenté en France le 30 mars 2015

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I bought this book last year on amazon.uk. At first I must confess I bought it just because it was written by JK Rowling (I had loved the Harry Potter novels as a child and teenager and wanted to read another book by Joanne).
I fell in love right away with this masterpiece! It's very well written and..... realistic, which might be a drawback for some people as some parts of the book are really dark (you won't find Harry Potter's magic in this book). I loved Pagford and the Fields and the majority of the characters.
The style is very pleasant, so pleasant I read the book in less than two days (just like when I used to read Harry Potter) BUT it's dark, the novel begins with the death of a character and many serious themes are developed in this novel.
In short, liking Harry Potter doesn't mean you will enjoy this very realistic novel.

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KevinM

Un thriller par J.K Rowling ?

Commenté en France le 15 avril 2018

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Je n'ai pas pu dépasser 30 pages. Certains diront que l'ont ne peu pas noter un livre si on est pas allé jusqu'au bout, mais, si un auteur n'arrive pas à nous donner envie de lire son livre en entier, c'est qu'il y a un souci. Personnages insipides, on ne sait pas trop où ça va...

Si je ne me trompe pas, J.K. Rowling, suite à ce livre, à préférer écrire ensuite sous un pseudonyme sa série Cormoran Strike... avant d'annoncer ensuite, suite à des critiques positives, que c'étaient elle ! Je suppose qu'elle ne voulait pas prendre le risque d'associé, à son nom, deux thrillers pas terrible d'affilés ! Et même si Cormoran Strike (cuckoo's calling) est une nette amélioration par rapport à The Casual Vacancy, il n'en reste pas moins risible...

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Chéreau isabelle

Un bon livre

Commenté en France le 10 septembre 2019

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Il faut passer les 50 premières pages, un peu laborieuses. Ce livre offre une fresque sociale intéressante au sein d’une petite ville de l’Angleterre profonde , on s’attache aux efforts maladroits ou futiles que livre chacun des personnage aux vies entremêlées, pour préserver son statut social ou pour survivre dans un environnement hostile, ou simplement pour être aimé, trouver sa place.

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Celine Dupont

JK Rowling's first novel for adults

Commenté en France le 23 octobre 2012

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Just a short warning: people who expect a magical world evolve around them while reading this new novel, will be disappointed. JK Rowling's book is not about anything magical or fiction. The setting is grounded in a harsh reality: drug addiction, domestic violence, bullying, adultery, deceit and racism. But Rowling manages to create memorable and moving characters living in a superficially idyllic little village. The inhabitants are at war with the nearby council estate, where people use drugs and live of the state, the novel describes the struggle between "old" respectable England and the "new" underclass of the estate. The characters made me laugh, made me angry and moved me to tears. Writing anything after the Harry Potter series must be a risk and a tough act to follow. But it is a wonderful novel, no doubt.

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D. Fabienne

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Commenté en France le 29 mars 2013

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Je savais grâce aux divers commentaires et articles, que ce livre n'avait RIEN a voir avec les Harry Potter (dont je suis fan, meme si je ne suis plus une ado!) mais la franchement je sus déçue. Je comptais au moins retrouver le style et l'humour de Rowling... et bien non. Trop de personnages, trop de détails inutiles, un anglais hermétique (je suis pourtant bi-lingue). J'avoue que j'ai été tentée de ne pas finir le livre. Il s'ameliore un peu au fil de la lecture (apres les 120 premieres pages) mais, still, c'est vrmt pas génial. Comme quoi on peut être un superbe écrivain dans un genre de roman et pas dans un autre! Dc, non je ne le conseille pas, sauf si on vous le prête!

Commenté en France le 29 décembre 2021

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Résumé de l’histoire jovial, je pensais passer un bon moment de détente à la lecture de ce livre. En fait c’est juste écœurant : enfants maltraités, drogue, scarification, viol. Pour un public voyeuriste mais les ficelles sont un peu grosses. Décevant !

Commenté en France le 10 janvier 2020

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Pour travailler son anglais offert...

Commenté en France le 24 août 2020

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On décroche très vite de ce livre à cause du nombre de personnages et de la situation manquant beaucoup d’intérêt.

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Chanatkins

Pleasantly surprised

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 3 décembre 2018

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I've never been interested in Harry Potter, but had to choose an adult book written by a predominantly children's author for a reading challenge I'm taking part in. This book was the first that sprang to mind, and the blurb also sounded rather good. I have to say I really enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised. I found the writing sublime and the characterisation fantastic. The story revolves around the social and political issues that arise in the tiny rural town of Pagford. A popular local councillor dies unexpectedly and his position needs to be filled. It's soon revealed that the Parish council is very divided with some of them wishing to part ways with a scruffy council estate that was forced upon their parish years ago, and some wishing to help the unfortunate people who live there. There are many unlikable characters in this book, but I quite enjoyed reading about them. It is, in many places quite funny, and I think would work brilliantly on TV. Luckily there are some characters you end up rooting for, such as Andrew who suffers abuse at home from his father, Sukvinder who is self-harming due to the bullying she endures at school, and Krystal, who is trying so hard to rise above her poverty-stricken background by trying to rescue her little brother from the clutches of their drug-addicted mother and her dodgy friend Obbo. This is, despite the funny moments, a very hard-hitting book, which deals with a lot of serious issues. Some of the characters just get worse, while some of them seem to redeem themselves towards the end. Be warned though, there is an upsetting end to it all. All in all, I would recommend this to anyone who fancies a really character driven book with strong writing and gritty issues tackled well.

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Arberton

Variety and real issues

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 27 juin 2018

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The Casual Vacancy – J K Rowling

, I thoroughly enjoyed The Casual Vacancy mainly because of the vivid characters and their great variety. They were presented in vividly contrasting ways, whether between married couples or teenagers and from a gamut of contrasting social backgrounds. In fact I think variety is the key idea that unifies the novel. But the characters grip strongly. One probably develops keen feelings for most, if not all of them – great sympathy for Krystal Weedon , for example, struggling against the odds to care for her three-year-old brother, Robbie; powerful distaste for Simon Price, a bully to his wife and sons, Andrew and Paul, and a corrupt employee of a printing company; hopeful admiration for Kay Bowden who begins to show understanding and make progress towards rehabilitating Terri Weldon whom one might see as a victim of circumstances as a drug addict and part time prostitute; and feelings of sympathy for Sukvinder Jawanda, bullied at school to the point of self-harming, by Stuart “Fats” Wall and with a self-centred mother, Parminder.

There is also variety in the themes and issues that the novel touches on: class, marital relations, drugs, teenage attitudes, social problems and local politics, the latter being at the root of the conflicts the novel is concerned with. Variety is also part of the setting of the story: the “Field” is the working class and deprived area of the small town of Pagford compared with its more affluent area with its cobbled streets and chocolate box appearance; and Yarvil is the nearby town where some of the characters work and attend – at the comprehensive school and the St Anne’s private school and the hospital. There is also the cave where Andrew (“Arf”) and “Fats” meet to smoke and shoot up; and the river where Krystal and Stuart have sex and where three-year-old Robbie drowns despite Sukvinder’s efforts to save him.

Critics have made much of the observation that there are connections between this novel and Rowling’s Harry Potter books, pointing out that the teenagers in The Casual Vacancy have in common with those in the HPs that there is conflict between them and the adults. In the case of this adult novel, however, we encounter behaviours among both adults and teenagers that lead to terrible tragedy in the deaths of the only two characters who perhaps have the strongest appeal to our sympathies, Krystal and Robbie. A bleak ending.

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Christabelle

A great story that also tackles plenty of heavy issues

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 9 avril 2015

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As the Harry Potter books aren’t really my thing, I hadn’t taken much notice of J K Rowling’s books; I may have heard of ‘The Casual Vacancy’ but I had no idea what it was about. This changed when I watched the first episode of a recent TV adaptation, it seemed as though 'The Casual Vacancy' might be right up my street and indeed it was!

I liked the book because it’s character-driven; it’s about life in a little provincial town called Pagford, and the interactions between its various inhabitants, from deep friendships to lifelong jealousies and rivalries, from teenage infatuations to adults wanting someone they’re not allowed to want. A lot of the characters are not very likeable, but this makes the novel realistic; in ‘real life’ we don’t like everyone we meet!

I liked this novel also because, although written for the most part in a light-hearted, frequently humorous, way, it has moral content and contains probably more than its fair share of very heavy, topical issues; domestic violence, child neglect and abuse, self-harm, rape, drug abuse, troubled families, I could go on…

I didn’t particularly like the manner of speaking which the author gives to Terry and Krystal Weedon. I don’t know whether it is an accurate portrayal of how people like Terry and Krystal do speak, but it just seemed a bit patronising possibly? Although encouraging sympathy and support for needy groups within the community, I did feel that ‘The Casual Vacancy’ maybe panders to the worst possible stereotypes of a certain section of the population: a large number of the Fields’ population we are told live on benefits (well, at least if Miles and his ilk are to be believed), drug abuse is a problem on the estate, the only Fields family, and arguably the only working-class family, which plays a large role in the book is the extremely troubled Weedon one. Not that the middle-classes are let off lightly either, but at least more than one type of middle-class person is depicted.

That said, I very much enjoyed reading this book; J K Rowling is a great storyteller and I look forward to checking out her crime fiction in the near future.

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dianej

This book began very slowly for me and I found it very difficult to get into the story. I had seen the film which I did not think replicated the book and went nowhere near telling the story succinctly.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 23 juin 2018

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ilm which I did not think replicated the book and went nowhere near telling the story succinctly. I felt that the amount of 4 letter words a little unnecessary. I was however determined to finish it.
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I could however relate to the story, my mother divorcing my father when I was only a,few months old and not being allowed any information about him and felt that maybe some of the background waS taken from experience. Although there were parts which seemed exagerated.

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Mr Q

Pass the Soap (opera) !!

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 7 avril 2015

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The cast of this book is more akin to East Enders than it is to Howgarts -so if you're expecting Harry Potter don't waste your time & money.

I found the book to be a very slow starter that has multiple characters and sub plots, which does make it a little hard to follow, especially if like me you tend to read it in small snapshots.

It gathers momentum especially towards the end, but be warned it's a long journey - and even at the almost inevitable conclusion you question what was the point of it all ?

To my mind the overiding theme throughout is one of social sterotypes and their inherent failings and Rowling is undoubtedly using this novel as a vehicle to have a pop at the blue rinse brigade ( hear, hear!!) whose "not in my back yard" rhetoric provides continuity across the many sub plots.
This is all the more pertinent in the month's leading up to a general election in the UK therefore if you scratch beneath the surface there is a lot more to this than initially meets the eye and the subject matter becomes very thought provoking.

This made it a wothwhile read for me a story based on reality not fantasy.

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