The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling, 2012 ebook kindle Apparently, Pagford is an idyllic English village. A small place at the feet of a hill peaked by an ancient abbey and crossed by a river, with cobblestone streets and a wonderful main square, decorated with flowers and plants. The only negative side of the village is the neighborhood known as The Fields, a highly degenerated place full of low class citizens and broken homes, where drug consumption is quite usual. The relations between the pagfordians and the fielders depend on just one link, Barry Fairbrother, member of the parish council of Pagford. The sudden death of Barry Fairbrother shocks all the people in the small town, and despite the grief that everybody feels, marks the outbreak for a hard struggle for the vacancy left in the parish council. The background of this political struggle is the relation between Pagford and The Fields. Some of the councilors what to keep the degenerated neighborhood joined to Pagford...
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