Cover of J.K. Rowling’s upcoming book “The Casual Vacancy” revealed
J.K. Rowling’s publisher, Little, Brown & Co., released today (Tuesday) the cover of her next book, “The Casual Vacancy,” due out Sept. 27 in the U.K. and U.S.
J.K. Rowling (AP file)
The novel will be Rowling’s first book for adults and her first book set outside the magical world of her now-iconic Harry Potter series.
Here is the synopsis for the book:
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.
-BAM
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