Book Review Barry Fairbrother dies giving rise to a vacancy in the Parish council. There are many aspirants for the vacant post. J K Rowling’s novel, The Casual Vacancy , is partly about the struggles of the aspirants to materialise their dream. The novel is more about such social issues as juvenile aberration, pornography, drug addiction, and child abuse. The novel presents a terribly bleak and partly frivolous world. Linguistic obscenity hangs heavily on the reader’s mind as he/she turns pages hoping to see some light at the end of the tunnel. But all that you will get is more and more darkness. Rowling is writing about a society that shrugs at revelations of evil. A character in the novel, the adolescent Stuart “Fats” Wall, tries to defeat his father in the Parish council election by hacking into the council’s website and posting a report that his father was a thief, only to realise that “the world, it seemed, had merely shrugged. Evil is a natural concomitant
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