The Casual Vacancy

A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties the 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 facade 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.