Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in the Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."Ī story of ambition, envy and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. "I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store. Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2-1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day. Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy. The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m.
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