J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy Cover Art Revealed

On Tuesday, Little, Brown released the final cover art for The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults, to be published worldwide in English on September 27.

The novel, billed as a big novel about a small town, is priced at $35 in (978-0-316-22853-4); $39 in large print hardcover (978-0-316-22854-1); $19.99 in e-book (978-0-316-22855-8); $29.98 in unabridged audio download (978-1-619-69501-6), and $44.98 on CD (978-1-619-69500-9). The audio edition of The Casual Vacancy will be read by Tom Hollander, an experienced stage and screen actor.

Here is Little, Brown’s updated story synopsis:

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 façade 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 by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations?