Rowling has written realistic fiction before, although most of us probably didn’t think of it that way at the time. But even that realization, upon reflection, is no surprise at all. The only surprise is how dark, even bleak, this story is. I was only a few chapters in before realizing what I should have known from the start: it’s much, much harder to write well for children than it is to write for adults, and for anyone capable of succeeding so brilliantly at the former, succeeding at the latter must have seemed like, well, child’s play.
I confess that I too approached The Casual Vacancy with that question uppermost in my mind. Could the world’s most successful children’s-book author make it when she moved up to the grownups’ table? Still, it’s an equally safe assumption that a lot of the eager readers who pre-ordered the book did so out of curiosity. Horrible or wonderful, it is already a runaway success. 27, it’s safe to assume that the first adult work by Harry Potter’s creator is about as review-proof as a book can get. Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy took over the #1 bestseller on Amazon well before its official publication date of Sept.
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