The Casual Vacancy, J. K. RowlingA 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

and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination

Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction

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So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever

and has been enormously influential

Mindfulness is the easy way to gently let go of stress and be in the moment

has long explored and explained the way we live

rocking the close-knit community and tearing the women apart as one of them becomes the prime suspect

From collapsed paper currencies and hidden agendas of soveriegn wealth funds to the very real threats of national security

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the weeks where apparently making them wear pants was akin to child torture

But Lane also has darker motivations