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Behind the Hedge: J.K. Rowling’s Dark Autopsy of a Small Town - Commonwealth Union

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling demonstrates her freedom from genre constraints. In this novel, she has taken a small town, specifically Pagford (a fictional town located in England), dissected it precisely, and exposed multiple issues that are lying just under the manicured hedges and friendly smiles of the people about town. The catalyst for this novel (the vacancy created by Barry Fairbrother’s tragic death) is also the centre of gravity f…
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