The Casual Vacancy: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter follow-up becomes an HBO mini

When J.K. Rowling brought her beloved Harry Potter book series to a close in 2007, fans wondered where her unique literary mind might wander next. Publishing the Potter spinoff The Tales of Beedle the Bard a year later, Rowling then turned her attention to a strictly grownup audience with 2012’s best-selling The Casual Vacancy. Now the prolific author has teamed up with the BBC and HBO to adapt the brooding tale of small town discord into a three-part, two-night event of the same name. The Casual Vacancy is set in a fictional and picturesque English hamlet called Pagford, where, behind … Continue reading →

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