![]() ![]() ![]() When Barry suddenly dies from an aneurysm, he leaves behind an open seat on the council – and ground zero for a local war. Because The Fields’ expenses are all added onto the town of Pagford’s tab, some people on the council would rather have the township’s lines redrawn to exclude The Fields. The children who live in The Fields are allowed to attend the Pagford school system, the residents get free housing, and the addicted are able to obtain the proper help from the clinic on the same parcel of land. He is the girl’s row team coach and a big advocate for ‘The Fields’, a small strip of land subsidized for housing the poor. ![]() In this tragicomedy, Barry Fairbrother is a parish council member in the town of Pagford, a small town in the English countryside. I wanted to read this when it came out but … so many books, so little time, right? It set a GoodReads record that week for the highest ‘just started’ selectors on one day and went on to win a GoodReads Choice for Best Fiction award in 2012. When the queen of the Harry Potter franchise published her first adult book in 2012, The Casual Vacancy sold over one million copies in the first week of its release. ![]()
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