The Casual Vacancy Dean Garratt would become the world's most

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The Casual Vacancy Dean Garratt would become the world's mostA big novel about a small town When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty faade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left