5/27/2023 0 Comments The casual vacancy review![]() ![]() ![]() The boxing ring is the local parish council the fight is profit versus people.Īt a council meeting we are introduced to a swathe of characters good against bad. He’s married to a beautiful, doting wife and they live together in a gorgeous house, although the bathroom mirror that cracks and reflects nightmare images isn’t so picture perfect.īarry is pitted against the Mollisons – a couple nearing retirement who are fighting on the side of the corporation and trying to clean out Pagford of all its ‘undesirables’. ![]() Rowling was always going to be an event and we’ve been anticipating Sarah Phelps’ adaptation of The Casual Vacancy with excitement and gusto.Īnd so we delved down the rabbit hole into the quaint English town of Pagford, where not everything was as it seems or as idyllic as we’d be led to believe – picture perfect country cottages from the outside, with a sinister twitch behind the net curtains.īarry is our hero – the local fighter for the rights of the underdogs, the mentor to the abused youths and the emergency get out of jail card for the local drug addicts. Being invited in to a world conjured up by the literary superstar J.K. ![]()
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