JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: the first reviews
It may only have hit shelves this morning, but JK Rowling's first foray into adult fiction is already dividing critics.
It may only have hit shelves this morning, but JK Rowling's first foray into adult fiction is already dividing critics.
The Casual Vacancy went on sale earlier today
Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph: "The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed, and full of cruelty and despair."
Theo Tait, Guardian: "The new book contains regular outbursts of four-letter words, along with the memorable phrase 'that miraculously unguarded vagina' – which, leaked in a pre-publication profile, has caused a flurry of jokes on Twitter about Harry Potter and the Miraculously Unguarded Vagina. Generally, though, The Casual Vacancy is a solid, traditional and determinedly unadventurous English novel."
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