J. K. Rowling and the Novel Announcement
Thanks to Serpentine, snapes_witch and suo_gan and for keeping me in the loop!
BBC: J. K. Rowling Announces Title of First Adult Novel
Author JK Rowling has announced her first adult novel will be called
The Casual Vacancy.
...The story is centred on the death of Barry Fairweather, whose unexpected passing shocks the local villagers of Pagford.
Publishers Little, Brown & Co said: "Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war."
The company describes the tale as being "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising".
From Yahoo News: A Casual Vacancy
The new book, aimed at a grown-up audience, will be set in a seemingly idyllic English town called Pagford which is described as far more menacing than its pretty facade would indicate.
It opens with the sudden death of a popular man whose unexpected demise shocks the town. The battle for his seat on the local council sets off "the biggest war the town has yet seen," with rich people fighting poor, parents battling their teenagers, and wives in conflict with their husbands.
The publisher said the 480-page novel will be sold as an e-book and audio download as well as in traditional hardback form.
First thoughts: "Pagford" sounds like a corruption of "Pigford" - maybe a place where pigs cross a stream or boars come to drink - which falls in line with her love of boarish place names such as Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Hogshead.
The description of the novel reminds me of the books of the late John Mortimer, who wrote one of my favorites ~ Paradise, Postponed. If she can come up with one character as funny as Leslie Titmuss, the local politician with his dogged "through the chair" said in nasal twang, then the book will be a success. And I'm sure she can - the woman loves creating funny characters. I hope she gives them animal tendencies, like the characters in Harry Potter (our discussions will be like this: he's like a rat, and she's like a scorpion, and their daughter is a puffer-fish). This should be fun, whether it's good or bad, LOL.
BBC: J. K. Rowling Announces Title of First Adult Novel
Author JK Rowling has announced her first adult novel will be called
The Casual Vacancy.
...The story is centred on the death of Barry Fairweather, whose unexpected passing shocks the local villagers of Pagford.
Publishers Little, Brown & Co said: "Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war."
The company describes the tale as being "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising".
From Yahoo News: A Casual Vacancy
The new book, aimed at a grown-up audience, will be set in a seemingly idyllic English town called Pagford which is described as far more menacing than its pretty facade would indicate.
It opens with the sudden death of a popular man whose unexpected demise shocks the town. The battle for his seat on the local council sets off "the biggest war the town has yet seen," with rich people fighting poor, parents battling their teenagers, and wives in conflict with their husbands.
The publisher said the 480-page novel will be sold as an e-book and audio download as well as in traditional hardback form.
First thoughts: "Pagford" sounds like a corruption of "Pigford" - maybe a place where pigs cross a stream or boars come to drink - which falls in line with her love of boarish place names such as Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Hogshead.
The description of the novel reminds me of the books of the late John Mortimer, who wrote one of my favorites ~ Paradise, Postponed. If she can come up with one character as funny as Leslie Titmuss, the local politician with his dogged "through the chair" said in nasal twang, then the book will be a success. And I'm sure she can - the woman loves creating funny characters. I hope she gives them animal tendencies, like the characters in Harry Potter (our discussions will be like this: he's like a rat, and she's like a scorpion, and their daughter is a puffer-fish). This should be fun, whether it's good or bad, LOL.