{"description": "When Barry Fairbrother 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 fa\u00e7ade 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\u2026. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town\u2019s 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\u2019s first novel for adults.", "covers": [9326674, 10407288, -1, 11164049, 11555400, 12550354, 14025059, 13019112, 10579145, 11265994, 13021329], "key": "/works/OL16796166W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL23919A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL3416152A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "The Casual Vacancy", "subjects": ["fiction", "Elecciones locales", "City council members", "Spanish language materials", "Death", "Novela", "Local elections", "City and town life", "Ciudades y pueblos", "Fiction, humorous", "Fiction, psychological", "England, fiction", "Elections", "Black humor (Literature)", "Englisch", "Roman", "Country life", "nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2012-10-14", "New York Times bestseller", "New York Times reviewed", "English literature", "Fiction, humorous, general", "Vida urbana", "Ob\u010dinski svetniki", "Smrt", "V leposlovju", "Lokalne volitve", "\u017divljenje na pode\u017eelju", "Fiction", "Polish language materials"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["England", "Anglija"], "links": [{"title": "New York Times review", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/books/book-review-the-casual-vacancy-by-j-k-rowling.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/the-casual-vacancy-by-j-k-rowling.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 36, "revision": 36, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2012-10-23T11:02:08.599358"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-03T12:22:59.204707"}}